Garda interviews ruled inadmissible at IRA trial
The Special Criminal Court ruled today that garda interviews with five Dublin men arrested in Bray and later charged with IRA membership were not admissible in evidence because they were detained in a garda station for 20 hours with little or no sleep.
Mr Justice Diarmuid O' Donovan, presiding, said the court was concerned the five men had been detained for 12 hours under the Criminal Justice Act and had been interviewed and none of them had "very much in the way of sleep".
