Chief gardaí appear in alleged Real IRA members' trial

Two Detective Chief Superintendents have given evidence at the Special Criminal Court of their beliefs that three men accused of being Real IRA members were members of an illegal organisation.

Detective Chief Superintendent Philip Kelly, who heads the Special Detective Unit, told Mr Tom O’Connell SC, prosecuting, it was his belief that Adrian Kirwan was a member of an illegal organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise the IRA on December 5th last year.