The Special Criminal Court in Dublin was today shown a video of three masked men, including one carrying an AK 47 rifle, who told BBC journalists they were the Real IRA and ``capable of waging war against the British state’.

The trial of four men arrested during a Garda operation into suspected dissident activity in Donegal last March has heard that images of “men in balaclavas, camouflaged jackets and holding an AK47” were found during a search of a Transit van.

Four Derry men today pleaded not guilty at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin to IRA membership last March.

Four Derry men charged with IRA membership were remanded in custody by the Special Criminal Court today.

FOUR men were last night charged with membership of the IRA at a special sitting of the Special Criminal Court in Dublin as part of a renewed Garda crackdown on paramilitary activity in Donegal.

A youth is being treated for injuries this morning after falling 32 feet from a multi- story car park in Dublin city centre.