Expert confident fingerprint is that of IRA accused

A fingerprint expert has told the trial of a Dublin man charged with membership of the IRA that he is happy beyond any doubt that a fingerprint mark left in a van, in which gardaí found a handgun, was made by the accused.

Detective Garda Eamon Hennelly, who said he has 23 years experience in the identification of finger marks, was giving evidence in the trial of Vincent Kelly (aged 21) of Empress Place, Ballybough, Dublin, who has pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hEireann, otherwise the IRA on June 7, 2005.