Three charged as gardaí foil tiger kidnap plot in Cork

THREE men are due to appear at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin this morning after gardaí foiled a tiger kidnapping plot by a dissident republican organisation in Cork city.

Seven men were being questioned at Garda stations in Cork and Limerick over the weekend in connection with the attempted kidnapping of a Cork property developer/pub owner. They were being questioned under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act. The remaining four were still in custody last night. The men range in age from their 20s to 50s and one of them is believed to be a ruling member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party, the political wing of the INLA. Two others are thought to be senior INLA figures from Dublin.

Tiger kidnappings are so called because of the predatory stalking that precedes them.