Trial hears that knives, tape and cable ties were found in coalshed

The trial at the Special Criminal Court of four men accused of INLA membership has heard that three knives, duct-tape and cable ties were found in the coal-shed of a house that two of the accused men had entered.

Gerard Kelleher (aged 28), Cathedral View Walk, Kevin St, Dublin 8, Neil Myles (aged 54), of no fixed abode, Edward McGarrigle (aged 43), Melmont Gardens, Strabane, Co Tyrone, and John McCrossan (aged 47), Ballycoleman Estate, Strabane, Co Tyrone have all pleaded not guilty to membership of an illegal organisation, styling itself the INLA on February 22 last year, contrary to the Offences Against the State Act.