Two convicted of membership of illegal organisation

Two men arrested during a Garda investigation into the activities of dissident republicans were convicted by the Special Criminal Court today of membership of an illegal organisation. Another man was acquitted of the charge.

Adrian Kirwan (aged 25), a native of Ballymun, Dublin, with an address at Ardilaun Green, Ballymahon Road, Mullingar, Co Westmeath, was convicted of membership of an illegal organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Óglaigh na hÉireann, otherwise the IRA, on December 5, 2004.