Ryan Glennon pleads not guilty to IRA membership

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Ryan Glennon pleaded not guilty to IRA membership at Special Criminal Court Number 2, reported on 27 October 2016. The charge concerns alleged membership of an illegal organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, Óglaigh na hÉireann or the IRA, on 13 May 2015.

The first trial at the new non-jury court opened in Dublin, with the prosecution saying it would present belief evidence from a Garda chief superintendent, surveillance evidence and material connected to explosives found at a property in Courtown, Co Wexford. The trial, before Mr Justice Robert Eagar, Judge Sinéad Ní Chúlachái and Judge James Faughnan, was expected to last two weeks.

This report covers an earlier stage of the case. Later developments are not reported here.