IRA man jailed for three and a half years

A Monaghan man who is being sued by relatives of the victims of the Omagh bombing was jailed for three and a half years at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today for membership of an illegal organisation, namely the Real IRA.

Seamus Daly (aged 33), of Kilmurray, Culloville, Castleblayney, Co Monaghan, had pleaded guilty to membership of an illegal organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Óglaigh na hEireann, otherwise the IRA on November 20, 2000.