Eight men appear in court charged with membership of IRA

Eight Dublin men have appeared before an Easter Sunday sitting of the Special Criminal Court charged with membership of the IRA.

The men were all arrested on Friday afternoon after a search of a commercial premises in Clondalkin as part of an ongoing Garda investigation in to the activities of dissident republicans.

Kevin Braney, aged 38; Des Christie, aged 49; Eamon McNamee, aged 32; John Brock, aged 40; Darren Murphy, aged 42; Declan Phelan, aged 31; William Jackson, aged 53; and Hubert Duffy, aged 45, were all charged with membership of an unlawful organisation within the State, namely Óglaigh na hÉireann, otherwise the Irish Republican Army, otherwise the IRA, on Mar 29.