INLA trial adjourned due to judge illness

The trial of three men accused of INLA membership was adjourned until Friday by the Special Criminal Court today because one of the three judges hearing the case is ill.

The three men were arrested in February last year by gardaí investigating a plot to kidnap a Cork businessman.

Edward McGarrigle (aged 43), Melmont Gardens, Strabane, Co Tyrone, Neil Myles (aged 54), of no fixed abode, and John McCrossan (aged 47), Ballycoleman Estate, Strabane, Co Tyrone have pleaded not guilty to membership the INLA on February 22 last year.

It is the prosecution's case that the four men were involved in a plot to commit a crime at the home of a Cork businessman.

The trial is in its closing stages and the court is due to hear closing submissions from the prosecution and defence before considering its verdict.