John O'Brien admits assisting unlawful organisation over explosives

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John O'Brien admitted assisting an unlawful organisation over explosives at the Special Criminal Court on 9 April 2019. The admission concerned possession of an explosive substance at his North Great Clarence Street home in Dublin on 2 June 2017.

O'Brien, who was aged 56 and lived in Dublin 1, admitted knowingly rendering assistance in furtherance of an unlawful object involving possession of an explosive substance in circumstances raising reasonable suspicion that it was not in the organisation's possession for a lawful object. He was due to be sentenced on 29 April 2019.