The trial of a Co Cork chef arrested as part of a Garda investigation into IRA money laundering has been further adjourned until next month by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin.
Don Bullman (31), a father of two, from Fernwood Crescent, Leghanamore, Wilton, was charged with membership of an illegal organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Óglaigh na hÉireann, otherwise the IRA, on February 16th, 2005.
He was arrested at Heuston Station in Dublin in a Northern-registered 4x4 after gardaí found a hold-all containing over €94,000 wrapped up in three individual bundles. The wads of cash were hidden in a washing powder box tucked inside the bag.
His trial was originally fixed for March 22nd but was adjourned last month after the court was told that extensive documentation had been received by the defence including hand-written documents and CCTV footage.
The court remanded Mr Bullman on continuing bail until May 3rd next when the case will be mentioned again.
During a bail hearing last year the court was told Mr Bullman was "a central individual" to the activities of the IRA prior to February 16th, 2005, and that activity was "a money-laundering operation for the IRA, in which he is central."
Mr Bullman's arrest followed days of Garda raids in connection with a cross-Border operation to hunt down the millions of pounds stolen in the Northern Bank heist in Belfast in December 2004.