Two charged with IRA membership over Northern Bank raid

Two Cork men arrested as part of the garda investigation into the Northern Bank raid in Belfast in which £26.5m (€29.4m) was stolen in December 2004 were charged with IRA membership at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

The Provisional IRA was blamed for the raid - one of the biggest ever, and gardaí and the PSNI launched a major investigation into the crime.