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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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