Judgement reserved in Louth man's appeal against IRA case conviction

The Court of Criminal Appeal has today reserved judgement in the case of a Co Louth man appealing against his conviction for membership of the IRA.

Barry O'Brien (aged 39), a father of three from Mountain Court, Dundalk, was convicted in December 2010 of membership of an illegal organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hÉireann, otherwise the IRA on April 6, 2004.