James Joseph Cassidy remanded over IRA membership charge

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James Joseph Cassidy, 53, of Tullycollive, Castleblaney, Co Monaghan, appeared at an out-of-term sitting of the Special Criminal Court charged with IRA membership.

The report said he was charged with membership of an unlawful organisation, styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hEireann, otherwise the IRA, on 21 September 2016. The proceedings were reported on 23 September 2016.

Mr Justice Paul Butler, presiding with Judge Aileen Donnelly and Judge Gerard Haughton, remanded Cassidy in custody until 29 September 2016, when a bail application was expected.

This case may have concluded differently. The outcome has not yet been confirmed by a public source we could find.