Calls warned of bombs ahead of Queen’s Cork visit

The Special Criminal Court trial of a man accused of IRA membership has heard evidence of telephone calls warning of explosive devices at University College Cork and the Rock of Cashel in May 2011.

The Queen of England was due to visit the Rock of Cashel the day after the warnings were made, the court also heard.

Kevin Power, 38, with an address at Railway St, Passage West, Co Cork, has pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful organisation within the State styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Óglaigh na hÉireann, otherwise the IRA on December 19, 2011.