Gardaí and PSNI arrest five alleged members of far-right extremist group

Gardaí arrested a third person in Co Laois on 12 November and following further investigations a fourth person in Co Limerick on Tuesday. File picture

Security services are understood to have identified and arrested all five alleged members of a cell linked to a new extremist far-right group styling itself as the Irish Defence Army (IDA).

They are among a total of seven arrests that have taken place in a cross-border terrorism investigation, with four of the arrests in Ireland and three in the North.