‘Hooded Man’ charged with assisting IRA granted bail

Belfast man Kevin Hannaway, one of a group known as the ‘Hooded Men’ who are seeking revision of a judgment on their detention during the Troubles, has been granted bail by the Special Criminal Court pending his trial for allegedly assisting the IRA.

Mr Hannaway, 67, and four co-accused were arrested on August 8 as part of an operation targeting dissident republican activity in the Dublin region.

He was one of a group of men detained by British security forces during the Troubles who are seeking revision of a controversial 1978 judgment of the European Court of Human Rights, which said their treatment was “inhuman and degrading” but was not torture.