Arrests of six IRA accused deemed unlawful by court

The Special Criminal Court has ruled that the arrests of six Dublin men accused of IRA membership at a house in Tallaght were unlawful.

Mr Justice Tony Hunt yesterday said that in each of the six cases, they fell short of a “modest level of necessary objective justification” for arrests, under section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act, on suspicion of IRA membership as explained by the Supreme Court in the Walshe v Fennessy case in 2003.

The six are: