Man charged with possessing gun

A Sligo man arrested after a Garda alert to police in Northern Ireland was charged today with having a gun under suspicious circumstances.

David Lynch, 36, was detained in Strabane, Co Tyrone, where officers stopped a car.

They had been acting on information supplied by Gardaí in Lifford, Co Donegal, just across the border.

Lynch, from Collery Drive, Cranmore was also accused of possessing ammunition and a knife, driving with excess alcohol and causing criminal damage to a cell in Strabane police station, where excrement was allegedly smeared on the walls.

He was remanded in custody until his next court appearance on January 22.