#2015. McGrane

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Hall RC, Friedman SH, Jain A. 2015. Pregnant Women and the Use of Corrections Restraints and Substance Use Commitment. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry Law. 43(3), 359-368.

Kelsey, C. M., Medel, N., Mullins, C., Dallaire, D., & Forestell, C. 2017. An Examination of Care Practices of Pregnant Women Incarcerated in Jail Facilities in the United States. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 21(6), 1260–1266.

Nelson, R. 2006. Laboring in Chains. AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 106(10), 25-26.

Paynter, M. J., Drake, E. K., Cassidy, C., & Snelgrove‐Clarke, E. 2019. Maternal health outcomes for incarcerated women: A scoping review. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 28(11-12), 2046–2060. 

Thomas, S. Y., & Lanterman, J. L. 2017. A National Analysis of Shackling Laws and Policies as They Relate to Pregnant Incarcerated Women. Feminist Criminology, 14(2), 263–284.

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Seams McGrane jailed for 11.5 years on directing IRA activities charge.

A Republican leader convicted of directing the activities of a terrorist organisation which plotted an explosion during the State visit of Britain’s Prince Charles two years ago has been jailed for eleven and a half years. Seamus McGrane (63), of Little Road, Dromiskin, County Louth, was convicted in October by the non-jury Special Criminal Court of directing the activities of an unlawful…

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Can Modi deliver on his promise to create a $5-trillion economy? | Counting the Cost by Al Jazeera English Prime Minister Narendra Modi has an ambitious target for India. He hopes by 2015, the economy will double in size to $5 trillion - making India the fourth-largest economy behind the US, China and Japan. Right now, Modi could miss that target, just like his promise to create 10 million jobs a year during his first term. To become a $5 trillion economy India would need to sustain a growth rate of 8 percent and more for a couple of years. Very few nations have managed to sustain that level of growth; China, South Korea and Japan are exceptions. India's gross domestic product (GDP) sank to just 5 percent in the April to June quarter, but the government maintains the economy will expand by 7 percent this year. Independent economists disagree, with some of them saying that India is in recession. Unemployment is at a 45-year high of 6.1 percent, and almost 300,000 people in India's auto sector alone have lost their jobs in recent months. If growth does not improve, hopes of creating jobs for the one million young people who join the workforce every month will be dashed. To reduce income inequality and reduce poverty, India has a fair way to go. Just to underscore the challenge India is facing despite being the seventh biggest economy: its income per capita is about $2,000 a year. In comparison, China's per capita income is $9,800. So how serious is India's economic slowdown? Can Modi deliver on his promise of a $5-trillion economy or is the country headed towards recession? "I don't think we are there yet," says Miguel Chanco, senior Asia economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics. "Certainly some industries are feeling recession-like conditions ... but if you look at other major parts of the economy for example the IT and BPO service export industries, they are doing well ... So, yes, five percent growth is the lowest in over five years, but at the same time that's still pretty respectable given the current global economic environment." How will Brexit affect Ireland's economy? Ireland is the only European Union country to share a land border with the United Kingdom. The deadlock over the Irish border has held up a Brexit deal between Brussels and London. A hard Brexit would be detrimental to Ireland's farmers who export most of their produce. And as the capital makes preparations for Brexit, the influx of big businesses and property developers are pushing out Dubliners. Al Jazeera's Laurence Lee takes a look at Brexit's effect on urban and rural areas. Economists reckon that Ireland's economy could suffer a hit of somewhere between 4-7 percent in a decade's time thanks to Brexit. "It's a very serious situation ... we have to be realistic about the possibility - if not the probability - of a hard Brexit ... No part of the economy is immune to it because of the sheer extent of the relationships between Ireland and the UK," says John McGrane, director-general of the British Irish Chamber of Commerce. "The reality is that a hard Brexit on October 31 would have an effect within days on the two-way trade in goods and some services between the two Irelands." - Subscribe to our channel: https://ift.tt/291RaQr - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://ift.tt/1iHo6G4 - Check our website: https://ift.tt/2lOp4tL

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Hey Taylor, My name is Kylee McGrane and I have been a diehard fan since I was in the 6th grade. You have been a staple in my entire life, and I hope one day I can tell you that story and thank you for all you’ve done, but right now I have a different story to tell.  I know that you don’t follow me on Tumblr, and I’m just one of the hundred million following you, tagging you, and asking you to do a favor. But I hope that somehow this message gets to you. In July of 2016, my life changed forever when I met Karma Lilly. She was then 6 years old and battling stage 4 neuroblastoma. Karma is the sweet daugther of Jennifer and William Little. She was a normal healthy 3 year old toddler when cancer changed the family's lives. After Karma failed to respond to Frontline treatment/protocol in Macon and Atlanta Georgia, the family made the decision to start experimental clinical trials at Sloan-Kettering in NYC. Karma has been surviving off of clinical trials since December 2015. That’s where I met Karma as Rapunzel through a nonprofit that I started. After that day, we just clicked. I was enamored by her sassiness, her resiliency, and her incredible sense of humor. Her family has an unwavering faith that is inspiring and beautiful and magnetic.  After returning to Atlanta, Karma’s family has faced a heartbreaking reality.  Currently, Karma has completed every protocol or clinical trial for Neuroblastoma with no success. Atlanta and NYC both agree that there are no more effective options for Karma. Karma’s family was told that her cancer is terminal. And both teams confirmed an estimation of 3-6 months; but certainly not a year of life left for Karma. This news has been devastating to the thousands of people who love and adore Karma and I've been searching for a way to try to help them. While I’m in NYC and Karma is in Atlanta, it has been difficult to offer support outside of skyping, Facebook posts, and trying to fundraise to offset her medical expenses. Just minutes ago, her family posted Karma’s bucket list and I felt something inside me shift as I read her bucket list with your name on it. Years ago, when I met you just for five minutes, I had a cosmic shift in my life. You have been my idol for the last ten years, and I still hold on to our picture, our conversation, and the unmeasurable amount of advice and comfort you offered me and millions of others on my worst days. If there is anyway I can help provide that same comfort to Karma by helping her meet you or even just Skype you, I would be eternally grateful. Thank you for everything you’ve done for all of us.

Infinite x’s and o’s,

Kylee Lauren @taylorswift https://www.gofundme.com/littlekarmiracles

-- to my Tumblr friends, please tag Taylor <3 I would be so grateful. 

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SEAMUS McGRANE DECEDUTO NEL CARCERE DI PORTLOAISE

SEAMUS McGRANE DECEDUTO NEL CARCERE DI PORTLOAISE

Seamus McGrane, esponente di spicco della Real IRA, stava scontando la condanna mel carcere di Portloaise, Co. Louth, per aver complottato un attacco in occasione della visita del Principe Carlo d’inghilterra in Irlanda el 2015

Seamus McGrane è morto, sabato 25 maggio, in ospedale in seguito di un infarto occorso nel carcere di massima sicurezza di Portlaoise. Era uno dei soli due uomini, insieme…

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Real IRA founder who plotted bombing while Prince Charles was in Ireland dies in prison | UK news

One of the founders of the Real IRA, who planned a bomb attack during Prince Charles’s visit to Ireland in 2015, has died in prison.

Seamus McGrane died from a suspected heart attack while serving an 11½-year sentence for directing terrorism, the Irish Times has reported.

McGrane (64) from Co Louth in the Irish Republic, was recorded discussing Real IRA activities including the attack planned for Prince Charles’s trip to Ireland.

The Prince’s tour included a visit to the spot in Co Sligo where the Provisional IRA murdered Lord Louis Mountbatten and three others in 1979.

McGrane was only the second person to be convicted of directing terrorism in the Irish Republic. The first was Michael McKevitt, who was jailed for 20 years in 2003.

McGrane was one of the dissident republicans in the Provisional IRA who led a walkout from the organisation’s “army convention” in October 1997. Alongside McKevitt – the brother-in-law of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands – McGrane founded the hardline anti-ceasefire Real IRA.

His trial in 2017 heard that McGrane held discussions in a pub called The Coachman’s Inn early in 2015 with an IRA operative, Donal Ó Coisdealbha. Irish police had installed listening devices that secretly recorded McGrane talking about terrorist strategies.

McGrane told Ó Coisdealbha the target was to have “military significance” and referred to someone “coming on the 19th” – the same day Prince Charles arrived in Ireland.

McGrane was arrested six days before the planned attack.

When McGrane’s home and land linked to him in counties Louth and Wexford were searched, police found what the judge described as “a veritable arsenal of weapons and explosives”, including detonators, ammunition and mortars.

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Real IRA leader Dies in Prison: Seamus McGrane Biography, Wiki, Age, Family, Net Worth, Cause of Death

Real IRA leader Dies in Prison: Seamus McGrane Biography, Wiki, Age, Family, Net Worth, Cause of Death

Seamus McGrane Biography

Seamus McGrane (died 2019) was an Irish dissident republican and leader of the Real Irish Republican Army.

In 2017, McGrane was sentenced to 11 and a half years in prison for directing terrorism and being a member of an illegal organization. McGrane had planned a bomb attack in 2015 during Prince Charles’ visit to Ireland.

BBC News – Seamus McGrane: Real IRA leader dies…

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Chasing Rainbows? Building a structured content platform — Part one

Over the past decade, I’ve had the opportunity to use a range of Content Management Systems (CMSs). From my experience, I can’t help but feel that the products were designed for developers, not content creators.

Bath’s original CMS

“Many content management systems look like a database got drunk and vomited all over the interface” — Karen McGrane, Content Strategy for Mobile.

The success of any website is dependent not only on the skills, knowledge and talent of content creators, it is also reliant on the tools they use. Ultimately the CMS is where an organisation’s content strategy is executed.

Ofcom’s (the UK’s communications regulator) most recent report into Adults’ media use and attitudes found that UK adults are increasingly choosing to use devices other than computers to go online¹. They also found that while the majority of people had a Facebook account², they are also turning to other social media platforms³.

As smartphone apps continue to grab more of our daily attention⁴, the challenge of successfully reaching and engaging with our audiences will continue to grow.

More content writers, video producers and designers won’t fix the problem. If we are to meet the challenges of creating, publishing and managing content across an increasingly diverse set of platforms and devices, we need better operational and technical solutions.

A good CMS helps to guide… “the creation, delivery and governance of useful and usable content” — Kristina Halvorson, Brain Traffic.

Four years ago, when Bath started talking about building a publishing platform of its own, surprisingly developing a CMS wasn’t on my ‘to do’ list.

However, after listening to content strategists like Karen McGrane and Noz Urbina talk, I was convinced. To create the user-focused website that the University needed, required a CMS that embedded the practices of content strategy through a simple to use interface and workflow, based on the principles of create once publish everywhere (COPE).

Bath’s new CMS called the Publisher

COPE is a content reuse strategy based on adaptive content. To you and me that is structured content that has been semantically marked up so that it can be reused across different platforms and services.

Ultimately “content is data… it defines, describes, discusses, and debates things and ideas… tell a computer some tiny stories about the world... and it [will be able to] figure out how that world fits together” — Designing Content Content, Mike Atherton.

It was clear that the challenge the University faced wasn’t merely to build a responsive website, it actually lay in a fundamental shift in the way people would consume content.

The difference between multichannel and omnichannel communication

In future, experiences would be driven by contextually relevant content (Omnichannel). To do this universities would have to create contextually appropriate and seamless experiences. We knew that we’d need to take a road less travelled and build our very own publishing platform.

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1. A quarter of adults (24%) now only go online through devices other than a computer, up from 16% in 2015. This incidence increases to 31% for 16–24s, to 37% for 25–34s. Adults’ media use and attitudes, Ofcom 2017

2. Ninety-five per cent of social media site users have a profile/ account on Facebook. Adults’ media use and attitudes, Ofcom 2017

3. Compared to 2015 there has been growth in use of WhatsApp (45% vs. 28%), Instagram (31% vs. 22%), YouTube (30% vs. 22%), Snapchat (23% vs. 12%), Google+ (16% vs. 11%) and Pinterest (12% vs. 7%). As such, the incidence of only having a profile or account on Facebook stands at one in three (32%), down from 43% in 2015. Adults’ media use and attitudes, Ofcom 2017

4. Teenagers will check their phones on average 90 times per day, parents 33 times per day and grandparents 12 times per day. State of smart, Deloitte 2017

Source: http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/digital/2018/06/04/chasing-rainbows-building-a-structured-content-platform - part-one/

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Women of Legal Tech: Felicity Conrad

The Legal Technology Resource Center’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. This initiative launched in 2015 with a list of innovators and leaders in legal technology and with this year’s additions, that list now includes 100 talented and influential women leaders. Every Monday, we will be featuring a woman from our class of 2019. This week we have Felicity Conrad!

Felicity Conrad is the Founder and CEO of Paladin. Find her on Twitter @felicity_conrad.

  How did you become involved in legal tech?

In many ways, it was an accident! Before starting Paladin, I was a litigator at Skadden with a keen interest in public interest. I was definitely interested in innovative solutions to scale access to justice, but had no formal experience in “technology.” That said, I’m an optimist, love big ideas, and am a closet tech nerd, so I started meeting folks in startups and technology (including meeting my co-founder, Kristen Sonday). After meeting with lots of industry experts and technologists to vet our idea, we decided to take the plunge and start a legal tech company!

What projects have you been focused on recently?

Building Paladin is our top focus and has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. Paladin‘s mission is to increase access to justice by helping legal teams streamline their pro bono programs. We work with leading law firms and Fortune 500s to easily staff, manage, and track their pro bono work on a centralized platform, as well as visualize engagement and impact. It’s been such an incredible privilege to work every day to scale access to justice, and hopefully, we’re just getting started!

Is there a legal tech resource of any kind that you find yourself returning to or that was particularly formative for you?

As a technologist, this is a tad ironic, but the most important resource has been the incredible community that’s growing and actively working to support each other’s success. This list is a great example—how fantastic that there’s an annual group of talented women striving toward common goals in legal technology. This isn’t just online either—now, more than ever, there are ample forums, conferences, and gatherings to foster collaboration and share knowledge between folks in the industry and provide insights to those looking to get more involved too.

What technology do you think lawyers could look at in a different way that would benefit society?

Lawyers could realize that technology can help expand their scope and scale, rather than threaten it. Medicine has leveraged technology to make great strides for patients and doctors in an incredibly regulated industry, and the legal industry can do the same. With Paladin, for example, our goal is to build tools to support—not replace—pro bono professionals, legal service organizations, and, of course, pro bono lawyers! When viewed this way, I think technology can be a powerful tool for legal professionals to leverage to improve our legal system for the benefit of all.

What advice would you give to other women who want to get involved in legal tech?

Lawyers tend to be a risk-averse bunch, and it’s natural to want to conduct proper due diligence about career decisions like moving into legal tech (sorry, mom!). While it doesn’t need to be all or nothing, I would start attending legal tech events, meet as many people as you can, participate in hackathons, work on side projects, and ultimately—if it feels right—take the leap. There is so much opportunity unfolding in legal tech, and women should absolutely be key players in shaping that future!

Give a shout-out to another woman in legal tech who you admire or have learned something from!

There are so many fantastic women in legal tech that I’ve learned from! Two fabulous women that have been steady supporters along the way at Paladin, and who definitely deserve a shout-out for their legal tech contributions in their own right, are Anna McGrane at PacerPro and Maya Markovich at Nextlaw Labs. It’s a privilege to work alongside such talented ladies!

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“Where Does Your State Stand on Shackling of Pregnant Incarcerated Women?”

This article provides thoughtful commentary on the shackling of pregnant incarcerated women, detailing its harmful consequences, examining multiple studies, and a call for action. As of 2015, the United States has the highest incarceration rate of women in the world, estimating nearly 112,000 women in federal and state prisons with another 110,000 in jails. With that, 6-10% of women are pregnant when they first enter prison or jail. A study conducted in 2018 showed that even with the actions taken by the public, only 22 states have some form of anti-shackling legislation. However, the legislation varies amongst the states. For example, some states ban the use of shackles while women are transported to medical facilities, during childbirth, and in the immediate postpartum period, while other states ban shackling only during labor and birth. But, why with as many states that have such limitations on shackling are pregnant women still being shackled? This is because it is difficult to monitor the laws, mainly due to a lack of strict reporting requirements. Because of this failure in prisons and jails, the authors are driven to further their research in this article.

The authors begin by reviewing the consequences shackling has physically and mentally on pregnant inmates. For example, shackling can cause abdominal trauma, which can lead to placental abruption, maternal hemorrhage, and even stillbirth. Along with this, shackling can delay the timely assessment for vaginal bleeding and limit mobility during labor. 

As the authors explained, “Nearly three quarters of incarcerated women have psychiatric illnesses, including depression and post traumatic stress disorder. Shackling can lead to or exacerbate these and other disorders, causing an increase in distressing symptoms” (Ferszt, McGrane, & Palmer, p.19).

As well, the authors examined two studies. The first was a survey research study that obtained information from women’s state prisons across the country. The researchers contacted each warden of the prisons three times, in which only wardens from nineteen prisons chose to participate. Eight of these wardens reported continuing the use of shackling on pregnant inmates during labor, birth, and the postpartum period. In another survey, researchers contacted 384 facilities, in which only 53 jails across 40 states agreed to participate in. The researchers found that 17.4% of jails require that pregnant women be handcuffed or shackled during childbirth. 

The article included recommendations made by the Department of Justice, in which in 2011 published “Best Practices in the Use of Restraints with Pregnant Women and Girls Under Correctional Custody”. The handbook focused solely on the use of restraints, including the potential dangers to a woman and her fetus that could result from such restraints. However, with the recommendations made by the Department of Justice, correctional facilities are not obligated to use or follow the standards developed. What can be done to resolve the issue of shackling pregnant inmates? The authors’ call for action was directed towards nurses. Nurses and other clinicians are able to demand that shackles be taken off. Nurses can use their chain of command and educate correctional officials on the best practices for the healthcare of incarcerated pregnant women. Ultimately, nurses are in a vital position to advocate for pregnant incarcerated women and steps need to be taken to do so.

You can read more about the Department of Justice’s publication at http://www.nasmhpd.org/sites/default/files/Best_Practices_Use_of_Restraints_Pregnant%282%29.pdf

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Real IRA leader (RIRA) Seamus McGrane dies in Prison

Leader of the RIRA Seamus McGrane found guilty of directing terrorism and membership of an illegal organization

A dissident republican who was jailed for plotting a bomb attack during Prince Charles’ visit to Ireland in 2015 has died in prison.

Sixty-four-year-old Seamus McGrane, who was sentenced to 11-and-a-half years in prison in 2017, died on Saturday.

He was a leader of the Real IRA – a…

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Women of Legal Tech: Felicity Conrad

The Legal Technology Resource Center’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. This initiative launched in 2015 with a list of innovators and leaders in legal technology and with this year’s additions, that list now includes 100 talented and influential women leaders. Every Monday, we will be featuring a woman from our class of 2019. This week we have Felicity Conrad!

Felicity Conrad is the Founder and CEO of Paladin. Find her on Twitter @felicity_conrad.

      How did you become involved in legal tech?

In many ways, it was an accident! Before starting Paladin, I was a litigator at Skadden with a keen interest in public interest. I was definitely interested in innovative solutions to scale access to justice, but had no formal experience in “technology.” That said, I’m an optimist, love big ideas, and am a closet tech nerd, so I started meeting folks in startups and technology (including meeting my co-founder, Kristen Sonday). After meeting with lots of industry experts and technologists to vet our idea, we decided to take the plunge and start a legal tech company!

What projects have you been focused on recently?

Building Paladin is our top focus and has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. Paladin‘s mission is to increase access to justice by helping legal teams streamline their pro bono programs. We work with leading law firms and Fortune 500s to easily staff, manage, and track their pro bono work on a centralized platform, as well as visualize engagement and impact. It’s been such an incredible privilege to work every day to scale access to justice, and hopefully, we’re just getting started!

Is there a legal tech resource of any kind that you find yourself returning to or that was particularly formative for you?

As a technologist, this is a tad ironic, but the most important resource has been the incredible community that’s growing and actively working to support each other’s success. This list is a great example—how fantastic that there’s an annual group of talented women striving toward common goals in legal technology. This isn’t just online either—now, more than ever, there are ample forums, conferences, and gatherings to foster collaboration and share knowledge between folks in the industry and provide insights to those looking to get more involved too.

What technology do you think lawyers could look at in a different way that would benefit society?

Lawyers could realize that technology can help expand their scope and scale, rather than threaten it. Medicine has leveraged technology to make great strides for patients and doctors in an incredibly regulated industry, and the legal industry can do the same. With Paladin, for example, our goal is to build tools to support—not replace—pro bono professionals, legal service organizations, and, of course, pro bono lawyers! When viewed this way, I think technology can be a powerful tool for legal professionals to leverage to improve our legal system for the benefit of all.

What advice would you give to other women who want to get involved in legal tech?

Lawyers tend to be a risk-averse bunch, and it’s natural to want to conduct proper due diligence about career decisions like moving into legal tech (sorry, mom!). While it doesn’t need to be all or nothing, I would start attending legal tech events, meet as many people as you can, participate in hackathons, work on side projects, and ultimately—if it feels right—take the leap. There is so much opportunity unfolding in legal tech, and women should absolutely be key players in shaping that future!

Give a shout-out to another woman in legal tech who you admire or have learned something from!

There are so many fantastic women in legal tech that I’ve learned from! Two fabulous women that have been steady supporters along the way at Paladin, and who definitely deserve a shout-out for their legal tech contributions in their own right, are Anna McGrane at PacerPro and Maya Markovich at Nextlaw Labs. It’s a privilege to work alongside such talented ladies!

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Prince Charles bomb plot: Real IRA leader jailed

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Prince Charles visited County Sligo in the Republic of Ireland in May 2015 A dissident republican leader who plotted a bomb attack during Prince Charles’ visit to Ireland has been jailed for more than 11 years. Seamus McGrane 63, from Little Road, Dromiskin in County Louth was found guilty of directing terrorism and membership of an illegal organisation.…

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Real IRA boss plotted to blow up Charles and Camilla Breaking News

Real IRA boss plotted to blow up Charles and Camilla Breaking News

Real IRA boss plotted to blow up Charles and Camilla Breaking News

Real IRA leader Séamus McGrane was bugged by gardaí in a popular Dublin pub as he plotted a bomb attack in the run-up to Prince Charles’s visit in 2015

A Real IRA leader was bugged by gardaí in a popular Dublin pub as he plotted a bomb attack in the run-up to Prince Charles’s visit in 2015.

The Garda…

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Real IRA leader guilty over Prince Charles bomb plot

Real IRA leader guilty over Prince Charles bomb plot

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Prince Charles visited County Sligo in the Republic of Ireland in May 2015 A Real IRA leader has been convicted of playing a leading role in plotting a bomb attack during the state visit of Prince Charles to Ireland in May 2015. Seamus McGrane, 63, from Little Road, Dromiskin in County Louth, was found guilty of directing the activities of a terrorist…

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Seamus McGrane is convicted of planning a bomb attack during the prince's 2015 visit to Ireland.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41821653