Court date set for man accused of IRA membership

The Special Criminal Court has set May 2 for the trial of one of four men arrested in a garda swoop on dissident republicans in a Co Meath hotel last summer.

Robert Brennan (aged 33) of Sillogue Road, Ballymun, Dublin is charged with membership of an illegal organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hEireann, otherwise the IRA on July 29 last.