Man charged with membership of IRA
A Kildare man was tonight brought before the Special Criminal Court and charged with membership of the IRA.
John O’Reilly (aged 32), of Glendale, Leixlip was charged that, on June 25, 2009 within the State, he was a member of an unlawful organisation to wit an organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Óglaigh na hÉireann, otherwise IRA, contrary to section 21 of the Offences Against the State Act 1939.