Jail for man who ordered dark net grenades

A man who ordered two grenades off the dark net has been jailed for three years and six months for IRA membership.

Darren Gleeson, aged 35, with an address at Corduff Green, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, pleaded guilty last month at the Special Criminal Court to membership of an unlawful organisation, styling itself as the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hÉireann, otherwise the IRA, within the State on May 18, 2017.

Before handing down sentence yesterday at the three-judge, non-jury court, Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy, presiding, sitting with Judge Sinead Ní Chúlacháin and Judge Cormac Dunne, read the facts of the case to the court.