Cork chef has IRA-membership appeal postponed by courts

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgment in an appeal brought by a Co Cork chef, arrested as part of the Garda investigation into IRA money-laundering following the 2004 Northern Bank robbery, against his conviction for IRA membership.

In March 2007 Don Bullman (aged 33), a chef and father of two, Leghanamore, Wilton, Co Cork, was jailed for four years at the Special Criminal Court after he was found guilty of being a member of an unlawful organisation, namely the IRA, on February 16, 2005.