Kevin Hannaway and four others lose IRA conviction appeals

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Kevin Hannaway, Eva Shannon, Sean Hannaway, David Nooney and Edward O'Brien had appeals against convictions for assisting or belonging to an unlawful organisation dismissed by the Court of Appeal on 6 February 2020. The convictions arose from events at a property in Riverwood Park, Castleknock, Dublin, on 7 and 8 August 2015.

Kevin Hannaway and Eva Shannon had been convicted of providing assistance to an unlawful organisation, while Sean Hannaway, David Nooney and Edward O'Brien had been convicted of membership. The court rejected their complaints about the trials and held that the verdicts were safe. The judgment dealt with the conviction appeals only; separate sentence issues remained outside its scope.