IRA trial hears DNA evidence

DNA obtained from a money bag seized by gardaí is “a thousand million times” more likely to have come from a Cork man accused of IRA membership than an unknown source, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

Dr Geraldine O’Donnell of the State’s forensic science laboratory told the three-judge, non-jury court that a DNA sample from Tom Hanlon matched DNA taken from the zip tags and handle of one of a number of bags containing £2.4m (€2.83m).