Jim Smyth convicted of IRA membership in Monaghan

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Jim Smyth was convicted of IRA membership by the Special Criminal Court on 1 June 2017 and remanded in custody pending sentencing. The alleged activity concerned land at Knockatallon, County Monaghan, including land belonging to his mother-in-law.

The three-judge court said it accepted evidence about Smyth’s membership beyond reasonable doubt and was entitled to draw inferences from his failure to answer material Garda interview questions. He had pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the IRA, relating to 25 November 2015. Sentencing was listed for 19 June 2017.