Promising weightlifter to be sentenced for IRA membership

A potential world champion weightlifter will be sentenced for IRA membership next week at the Special Criminal Court.

Neil Smith (aged 35), Tubberfinn, Donore, Drogheda, Co Louth, was found guilty last month of membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hÉireann, otherwise the IRA on August 8, 2010.