Gardai believed IRA firearms and explosives were being stored at ex-SF councillor's home

At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, Inspector Padraig Boyce told the trial of Gerard Hutch, charged with the murder of Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne at the Regency Hotel on 5 February 2016, that a search warrant for the home of former Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall was obtained on the basis that firearms and explosives were believed to be stored there on behalf of the IRA. The warrant was executed on…