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'It's disgusting': Éamon Ó Cuív criticised for <b>writing</b> letter to IRA leader's solicitor during trial
FIANNA FÁÍL TD Éamon Ó Cuív has defended writing a letter to the solicitor of now convicted IRA member Seamus McGrane who was today sentenced to 11 years in prison for “directing terrorism”. The Special Criminal Court sentenced McGrane (63), of Little Road, Dromiskin, County Louth, for being ... http://ift.tt/2k7EZUg
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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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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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#2010 and a bomb on a railway line#2010 and May 13th#2015. He had denied both charges. He was sentenced this morning to six and a half years in prison for IRA membership#2015. McGrane#A Republican leader convicted of directing the activities of a terrorist organisation which plotted an explosion during the State visit of B#between the dates of April 19th and May 13th#County Louth#Detonators were found in the fields adjoining McGrane’s property#Dromiskin#During the trial the court heard evidence from two audio recordings#from April and May 2015#He had also described in the recordings an attack on Palace Barracks – the MI5 Headquarters in Northern Ireland – on April 12th#He had also made statements about providing bomb-making material for others#is only the second person to be convicted of directing terrorism in the State. His ally Michael McKevitt was jailed for 20 years in 2003 for#leader of a dissident group formed in 2008 and known as Oglaigh na hEireann#McGrane had issued instructions to Mr O’Coisdealbha to contact a person he referred to as the “motorbike man” to collect ingredients require#McGrane instructed Mr O’Coisdealbha that the operation should not be an “embarrassment”#McGrane mentioned experimenting with the development of explosives and discussed strategy and his involvement in training people in the IRA#McGrane was arrested six days before the planned attack and searches were conducted at his home in Dromiskin and an adjoining property at th#of Little Road#of McGrane and Donal O’Coisdealbha in conversation in the snug of The Coachman’s Inn on the Airport Road in Dublin – a pub that had been bug#otherwise Oglaigh na hEireann#otherwise the IRA#presiding judge Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy said that it was “a most serious offence”#Seams McGrane jailed for 11.5 years on directing IRA activities charge#Seamus McGrane (63)#Sentencing McGrane#styling itself the Irish Republican Army#the court found that McGrane discussed an operation involving explosives in the run-up to the State visit of Prince Charles two years ago. H#the date Prince Charles was due to carry out a State visit
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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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