Chef gets four years for IRA membership

A CORK city chef arrested with over €94,000 in cash hidden in a washing powder box continued to deny any involvement with the IRA yesterday as he was sentenced to four years in prison on conviction for membership of the organisation.

Chef gets four years for IRA membership

Don Bullman, aged 32, told the Special Criminal Court he never had been and never would be involved in subversive activities and had character witnesses give glowing references.

His plea of innocence did not impress the non-jury court’s three judges, however, who pointed out that they had found beyond reasonable doubt that he was an IRA member.

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