Man who claimed to be on "drinking session" is jailed for IRA membership

A Cork man who told gardaí he had gone to Monaghan for “a drinking session” and did not know there was half-a-tonne of fertiliser in the van he was driving has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years imprisonment for IRA membership. Martin McHale (53), with an address at Blackwater Grove, Togher, in