A number of people jailed for their roles in an IRA “inquiry” of suspected informants in a Dublin suburb have lost appeals against their convictions. The group was convicted of helping the IRA carry out interrogations of other members following a series of operations that were foiled by gardaí. They had denied the charges but were all found guilty following a trial at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, in June 2018. However, he said the three-judge court was satisfied that the trial of each defendant was satisfactory and their verdicts safe. Mr Justice Edwards, who sat with President of the Court of Appeal Mr Justice George Birmingham and Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy, dismissed each appeal.

Source: The Irish Times February 06, 2020 15:11 UTC