A Co Louth man whose trial on an IRA membership charge was prevented from going ahead by the Supreme Court last month is expected to have a bail application heard today after he was charged with the same offence at the Special Criminal Court yesterday.
Barry O'Brien (35), Oaktate, Stonetown, Dundalk, Co Louth, was charged with membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Óglaigh na hÉireann, otherwise the IRA, on April 6th, 2004.
Yesterday Garda Robert Lackey told the Special Criminal Court that he arrested Mr O'Brien at his home in Dundalk on Thursday morning on suspicion of IRA membership on April 6th, 2004.The court remanded him in custody until today, when is expected to be heard.