Date set for IRA membership trial

The trial of a Cork chef, arrested as part of a garda investigation into IRA money laundering and charged with membership of an illegal organisation, was set for March next year, at the Special Criminal Court today.

Don Bullman (aged 31), of Fernwood Crescent, Leghanamore, Wilton, Co Cork, was charged with membership of an illegal organisation styling itself as the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hEireann, otherwise the IRA, on February 16.