Prosecution: Suspect admitted 'to being a member of the INLA'

The trial of two Waterford men accused of INLA membership began today at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin.

John O’Donoghue (aged 27) of Clonard Park, Ballybeg, Co Waterford and James Butler (aged 55) of Ardmore Park, Ballybeg, Co Waterford pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish National Liberation Army, otherwise the INLA on June 18, this year.