IRA man loses garda evidence appeal

An IRA man jailed after a suspected spy ring was unearthed has lost the final leg of legal battles to stop the courts accepting confidential evidence from senior gardaí.

Kenneth Donohoe was sentenced to four years for membership of a terror group by the Special Criminal Court in 2004 after a number of men, including two men dressed as gardaí, were stopped in a housing estate in Bray, Co Wicklow, two years earlier.