Bullman worked in pub with Sinn Féin activist Hanlon

DON BULLMAN, the Cork chef charged yesterday with membership of the IRA, worked in the same pub where Sinn Féin activist Tom Hanlon worked as a part-time bouncer.

Mr Bullman, 30, was head chef and manager of a pub formerly known as the Touchdown Tavern, near Cork Airport, a number of years ago. Hanlon, a painter and decorator from Passage West, also worked as a bouncer there at the same time, sources said last night. Mr Bullman also worked at the now closed Monkstown Inn and at the West End pub in Ballincollig.

There was no answer at Mr Bullman’s well-kept four-bed detached home in Fernwood Crescent, Leghanamore, Wilton, yesterday. A red Seat was parked in the driveway. The lawn had been cut recently.