Former IRA leader remanded in custody with consent to bail

A former leading member of the Provisional IRA and Crumlin Road prison escaper was remanded in custody with consent to bail when he appeared at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Anthony Sloan (aged 56) a native of Belfast with an address at Ard na Mara, Dundalk, Co Louth was charged on Tuesday with membership of an illegal styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hÉireann, otherwise the IRA on October 31.