Man jailed over explosives find before royal visit

A Dublin man arrested on explosives charges in the run-up to the State visit of Prince Charles last year has been jailed for five and a half years by the Special Criminal Court.

The court had previously heard evidence that gardaí found explosive device components in the man’s locker at Maynooth University.

Last month, Dónal Ó Coisdealbha, aged 25, of Abbeyfield, Killester in Dublin 5 pleaded guilty to membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Óglaigh na hÉireann, otherwise the IRA, within the State on May 13, 2015.