The Orange Order has condemned an attack on buses taking some its members home from July Twelfth celebrations in the North yesterday evening.

Charges of Real IRA membership against four Northern Ireland men, including missing Armagh man Garreth O' Connor, were withdrawn by the State at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

A Garda Chief Superintendent told the Special Criminal Court today that original documents relating to the trial of three Northern Ireland men accused of Real IRA membership had been "mislaid".

The Special Criminal Court ruled today that portions of garda interviews with two Northern Ireland men accused of Real IRA membership should not be admitted in evidence because the men had not been given proper access to their solicitors.

A Northern Ireland man arrested at a Co Monaghan farmyard made no reply when questioned by Special Branch detectives about the activities of dissident republicans, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

The Special Criminal Court today refused to discharge itself from trying the case of three Armagh men accused of membership of a dissident republican organisation.

Four Northern Ireland men arrested in Co Monaghan earlier this month were members of a Real IRA active service unit preparing to commit serious crime, the Special Criminal Court heard today.