Accused 'was wearing Óglaigh tee-shirt'

The prosecution in the trial of a man arrested when gardaí found a handgun hidden inside a van in north Dublin in June last year, has claimed he was wearing a tee-shirt with ‘Óglaigh na hÉireann’ written on it at the time.

Vincent Kelly (aged 21) of Empress Place, Ballybough, Dublin, pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Óglaigh na hÉireann, otherwise the IRA, on June 7, 2005, at the Special Criminal Court today.