Arms trial ends as men plead guilty

THE trial of two men for conspiring to acquire rocket launchers, Kalashnikovs and other guns took a dramatic turn at Circuit Criminal Court in Cork yesterday when they pleaded guilty and were sentenced to seven and three years respectively.

Glen Geasley, aged 27, of 10 Innishmore Drive, Ballincollig, Co Cork, was jailed for 12 years, with the last five years suspended by Judge Patrick J Moran. Seán Callinan, aged 21, of 11 Pearse Park, Tullamore, Co Offaly, who played a lesser part in the crime, was given a six-year sentence, half of it to be suspended.

Judge Moran noted both defendants had pleaded guilty to conspiring to possessing arms for an unlawful purpose.