Dissident republican jailed for group membership

A senior dissident republican was today jailed for five years by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin after he was convicted of membership of an illegal organisation.

Declan Carroll, 25, of Edenmore Crescent, Raheny, Dublin, had pleaded not guilty to being a member of an illegal organisation styling itself Oglaigh na hEireann, otherwise the Irish Republican Army, otherwise the IRA, on November 29, 2000.