Eamon McNamee charge dropped in IRA membership case

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Eamon McNamee had his IRA membership charge dropped at the Special Criminal Court on 25 February 2015.

The DPP entered a nolle prosequi after the court ruled his arrest was unlawful.

McNamee had previously been arrested for IRA membership and was rearrested without a warrant, according to the ruling.

The charge concerned alleged membership of an illegal organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army on 29 March 2013.

The trial of the seven remaining accused was continuing, the report said.