Man charged with possessing 4kgs of TNT; another charged with IRA membership

A man has been charged with knowingly possessing four kilograms of TNT in central Dublin, while another man has been charged with IRA membership, at a bank-holiday Sunday sitting of the Special Criminal Court.

Mairtin Manning, with an unknown address or date of birth, was charged with knowingly possessing an explosive substance to wit 10 400 gram blocks of TNT and the explosive head of an RGD33 hand grenade at Spring Garden Street, Dublin 3 on June 2, 2017.