Dundalk man faces republican charge

A Dundalk man arrested as part of a Garda investigation into the discovery of a large explosives find near the border last month appeared at the Special Criminal Court today charged with membership of an illegal organisation.

Paul Kelly, aged 39, of Cedarwood Park, Dundalk was charged with membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise the IRA, otherwise the IRA on June 13.