Damien Metcalfe loses appeal against IRA membership conviction

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Damien Metcalfe lost his appeal against conviction for IRA membership at the Court of Appeal, with the decision reported on 1 July 2020. The court rejected every ground of appeal and upheld the conviction.

Metcalfe had been convicted by the Special Criminal Court of membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army. He was jailed for two years and six months in May 2019. The Court of Appeal said the trial court was entitled to consider the evidence, including recordings from a Garda surveillance operation at Riverwood Park, Castleknock, Dublin, in August 2015.