Kevin Hannaway granted bail on IRA assistance charge

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Kevin Hannaway was granted bail by a Dublin non-jury court on 17 August 2015 pending trial on an IRA assistance charge. The proceedings were reported on 18 August 2015.

The charge alleges knowingly rendering assistance to an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hEireann, otherwise the IRA, on 7 and 8 August 2015. Edward O’Brien and Eva Shannon were charged with the same offence on the same dates.

David Nooney and Seán Hannaway were each charged with membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army on 8 August 2015.

Ms Justice Deirdre Murphy, presiding alongside Judge Martin Nolan and Judge William Hamill, admitted all five accused to bail until 3 November, when a book of evidence was expected to be served.

All five were required to reside at given addresses and observe daily curfews. Kevin Hannaway was required to sign on at his local police station three times per week; the other four accused were required to sign on daily.

The report said Hannaway, 67, and his four co-accused were arrested on 8 August during an operation targeting dissident republican activity in the Dublin area. Detective Garda Connor Morgan told State Solicitor Michael O’Donovan that he arrested Kevin Hannaway at Tower Road, Clondalkin, on 10 August.