Bicycle tube "a perfect physical fit"

A piece of a bicycle tube around a box of ammunition found in an arms dump in Co Wexford formed "a perfect physical fit" with a piece of tube found at the workshop of a man accused of membership of an illegal organisation, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

Thomas ('Tom') Redmond, (aged 62), with addresses at The Grove, Clonard, Co Wexford and The Gate Post, Forth Commons, Co Wexford has pleaded not guilty to membership of an illegal organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hEireann, otherwise the IRA on October 1, 1999.