A brother of convicted Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt was given a five years suspended prison sentence at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today for firearms and ammunition offences.

Six Dundalk men charged with membership of an illegal organisation after gardai foiled a punishment beating in the town were further remanded for a fortnight at the Special Criminal Court today.

Six alleged dissident republicans who were arrested after a swoop on a house in Dundalk, Louth, last January were charged with firearms and ammunition offences at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Six men accused of being members of a republican terrorist group have been remanded in custody by the Special Criminal Court.

Six men accused of being members of a republican paramilitary group were today remanded in custody by Dublin’s Special Criminal Court.