Commissioner tells trial he "100%" believes accused is IRA member

An Assistant Garda Commissioner has testified at the Special Criminal Court that he holds a "100 per cent" belief that a Cork man charged with IRA membership is indeed a member of that organisation. Martin McHale, aged 53, from Togher, Cork, has pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army on 2nd November 2013. McHale was arrested in Monaghan with bags of…