Jailed Real IRA men to cost public €3m

TAXPAYERS will have to pay €3 million to keep two brothers, who plotted a Real IRA bombing campaign, behind bars.

The Prison Service has confirmed Louth men Aiden and Robert Hulme were repatriated from one of Britain’s most secure prisons to Portlaoise in the past week.

They had been housed in the notorious Belmarsh Special Secure Unit after they were convicted for their part in the failed 2001 Real IRA bombing campaign.