Detective garda testifies regarding Continuity IRA

Gardai in Limerick had information that the Continuity IRA was hiring out guns to criminal elements in the city, a detective garda told the Special Criminal Court today.

Detective Garda Kevin Donohue, Henry Street, was giving evidence in the trial of seven men who were arrested when gardai raided a house in the Shanabooley Road area of Limerick in December 2001 where a suspected meeting of the Continuity IRA was taking place.