Trial witness in peril, says police chief

A senior Garda today told of a decades-old security file on Michael McKevitt, the alleged leader of the Real IRA paramilitary group which claimed responsibility for the Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland.

Trial witness in peril, says police chief

A senior Garda today told of a decades-old security file on Michael McKevitt, the alleged leader of the Real IRA paramilitary group which claimed responsibility for the Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland.

Detective Chief Superintendent Martin Callinan, head of Garda Siochana intelligence and security section, also said he had “great concerns” about the safety of David Rupert, the American citizen set to be the chief witness against McKevitt in his trial at Dublin’s anti-terrorist Special Criminal Court early next year.

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