A Sligo man who admitted having a large quantity of home-made explosives at his home was given a five-year suspended prison sentence by the Special Criminal Court yesterday after the court heard he had "behaved himself" and not associated with subversives.
Wayne Kelly (26), a married man of Cranmore Villas, Sligo, originally pleaded guilty in 2004 to the unlawful possession of 21kg of ammonium nitrate and sugar at his home on September 6th, 2003 but the court adjourned sentence to see if he honoured his undertaking not to associate with subversives.
Yesterday prosecuting counsel George Birmingham SC told the court that Kelly has not come to the attention of gardaí since.
Mr Justice Richard Johnson, presiding, said that Kelly had been given an opportunity to behave himself.
The judge said the court would impose a five-year prison sentence suspended on condition that Kelly keep the peace for five years. An earlier court hearing was told that gardaí investigating the activities of the Continuity IRA found the home-made explosives at Kelly's home.