Three charged with being members of IRA

Three men appeared before a sitting of the non-jury Special Criminal Court at the weekend, charged with membership of the IRA among other offences.

The men had been arrested by members of the Special Detective Unit as part of an ongoing investigation into the activities of dissident republicans

Séamus McGrane, aged 60, of Little Rd, Dromiskin, Co Louth, was charged with membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hÉireann, otherwise the IRA, within the State between December 23, 2009 and May 13, 2015.