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“You don’t walk free from the Special Criminal Court” is a phrase repeated often by members of the Law Library.
Ruling may change way IRA cases are tried

The Special Criminal Court had a 94 per cent conviction rate at trial last year, but the rate could be reduced in future following the acquittal of tw(...)

Members of Republican Sinn Féin stand on Dublin’s O’Connell Street during their Easter Rising commemoration on Monday. Photograph: Aidan Crawley/The Irish Times
More marches by dissident organisations on O’Connell Street

Another march by dissident republicans, some of them wearing paramilitary style attire, took place on Dublin’s O’Connell Street on Monday to mark the (...)

News of the deep levels of concern about Garda overtime comes after it emerged that funding for some of the Garda’s armed units was at risk. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Garda told to get overtime spending ‘back under control’

Garda overtime spending is out of control and must be tackled immediately, the Government believes. Documents obtained by The Irish Times under the F(...)

A man arrested in Dublin is suspected of producing false identification including passports for suspected Islamic State terrorists. File photograph: iStockPhoto
Man suspected of faking IDs for Islamic State held in Dublin

A man suspected of producing false identification including passports for Islamic State terrorists has been arrested in Dublin. The man, understood t(...)

Portlaoise Prison
Man who smuggled note out of prison guilty of IRA membership

A Dublin man who smuggled an IRA communiqué out of Portlaoise prison has been convicted of IRA membership by the Special Criminal Court. Brian Kenna (...)

A man has been jailed after trying to transport 1.6kg of high-grade explosives and three detonators on the Bus Éireann bus from Dublin to Derry. File photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
Man jailed after bringing explosives onto Bus Éireann bus

A man who was arrested while trying to transport 1.6kg of high-grade explosives and three detonators on the Bus Éireann bus from Dublin to Derry has b(...)

Patrick Brennan (53) was arrested last June by officers from the garda’s Special Detective Unit (SDU) at Busaras, in Store Street following a tip-off. File photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Times
Busaras evacuated after dissident found with TNT, court told
  • Courts
  • January 30, 2017, 15:58

Dublin’s main bus station had to be evacuated after a dissident republican was caught on board a service to Derry with 1.6 kilos of high-grade explosi(...)