Former IRA leader freed on bail
A former leading member of the Provisional IRA and Crumlin Road prison escaper was freed on bail on a terrorism charge by 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 last week with membership of an illegal styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hÉireann, otherwise the IRA on October 31.
