Former teacher jailed for membership of unlawful organisation

A former schoolteacher from Co Louth was today jailed for five years after being convicted by the Special Criminal Court of membership of an unlawful organisation.

Mr Sean Mulligan (aged 52), a father of three from Carnalughogue, Louth Village was one of four men arrested at in a room at the Neptune Beach Hotel in Bettystown, Co Meath in July last year during an investigation into the activities of the Real IRA.