Gardaí found republican paraphernalia, IRA membership trial hears

A t-shirt saying "I'm a bomb technician- if you see me running try to keep up" was found in the house of a father-of-ten accused of IRA membership, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

Det Sgt Ruairi Corcoran showed the t-shirt to the three-judge court on the first day of the trial of Art Sherwin (aged 55), of Ballinagappa Road, Clane, Co Kildare who denies membership of an illegal organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hEireann, otherwise the IRA on March 14, 2005.