IRA suspect granted bail

A Kildare man who was arrested as part of a Garda Special Branch investigation into the activities of dissident republicans was granted bail by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Art Sherwin (aged 54), an electrician and father of ten, of Ballinagappa Road, Clane, Co Kildare, was charged last month with membership of an illegal organisation styling itself as the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hEireann, otherwise the IRA.