Former Special Branch head testifies in IRA trial

The former head of the Special Branch told the Special Criminal Court today that he believed a Dublin man was a member of an illegal organisation.

Detective Chief Superintendent Basil Walsh, who is now retired, said that he believed Declan Carroll was a member of an illegal organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hEireann, otherwise the IRA on July 29, 2001.