Garda: 'No intimidation' since arrests of INLA suspects

There have been "no cases" of people being intimidated with baseball bats in Waterford city since the arrest of two local men accused of INLA membership, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

Chief Superintendent Patrick Murphy, Waterford garda Station, was speaking at the trial of James Butler (aged 55), Ardmore Park, Ballybeg, Co Waterford and John O’Donoghue (aged 27), Clonard Park, Ballybeg, Co Waterford, who both deny membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish National Liberation Army, otherwise the INLA on June 18, last year.