Accused men did not approach door staff for work, court hears

Door staff at a Letterkenny nightclub received no approach for work from any of three men from the North accused of membership of the IRA in the hours before their arrest, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

Desmond Donnelly (aged 58) of Drumall, Lisnarick, Co Fermanagh, Gerard McGarrigle (aged 46) of Mount Carmel Heights, Strabane, Co Tyrone and Jim Murphy (aged 61) of Floraville, Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh have pleaded not guilty to membership of an illegal organisation styling itself on the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hÉireann, otherwise the IRA.