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A ‘Real IRA’ leader, Mr Seamus McGrane, latter who plotted an explosion during the State visit of Prince Charles to Ireland, back in 2015, died yesterday in Portlaoise prison.
The 63-year-old Mr McGrane died from a suspected heart attack, while serving an 11-and-a-half year prison sentence for directing terrorism.
In 2015, Mr McGrane had been remanded in custody, to appear before a Saturday sitting of a non-jury Special Criminal Court, together with two other named individuals; Mr Donal Ó Coisdealbha (then aged 23) and Mr Dylan Cahill (then aged 22).
The latter, Mr Dylan Cahill, who held an address at No.102 Lower Irishtown, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, was also charged with membership of an unlawful organisation, latter styling itself the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Oglaigh na hEireann.
Mr Cahill pleaded guilty to the possession of a .380 calibre Colt semi-automatic pistol and four rounds of .380 calibre ammunition at Sradrine, Glefarne, Co Leitrim on May 13th, 2015. He also pleaded guilty at the non-jury Special Criminal Court to the possession of two improvised explosive devices, or pipe-bombs, at the same place and on the same date.
Mr Cahill was sentenced to six years in jail with the final year suspended. A subsequent appeal of this sentence was later dismissed.
The Late Mr McGrane, was convicted of IRA membership back in 2017; becoming the second person, only, to be convicted for directing terrorism within the State; the other person being Mr Michael McKevitt, latter sentenced in 2003, to twenty years imprisonment.
€500,000 worth of cannabis and ecstasy located in Tipperary
Two men, aged 22 and 45 years, have been arrested following a vehicle chase yesterday afternoon, in Ballinure, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, after Gardaí had attempted to halt a van.
Same are currently being questioned in connection with the later seizure of over €500,000 worth of cannabis and ecstasy, latter found in follow-up searches at addresses in Cashel and Killenaule last night.
Garda Operation ‘Overwatch’ was initially set up in Co. Tipperary to tackle drug dealing and other serious crime within the county.
At approximately 3.45pm yesterday afternoon, officers on a drugs and crime patrol in the Ballinure area, gave chase to a van they had earlier tried to halt. Two packages were observed being thrown from the van, resulting in around €150,000 worth of ecstasy tablets being retrieved.
Following the arrests, searches at homes in Cashel and Killenaule later resulted in the recovery of €400,000 worth of cannabis herb, latter located by the canine unit in a converted shed, together with some €21,000 in cash.
The two males are known to Gardaí and are being detained today at Thurles Garda Station. Those arrested can be detained for questioned for up to seven days under Section 2 – Criminal Justice act (Drug Trafficking Act) 1996.
A Tipperary woman who fell from her bicycle, causing serious injury to her back, when she skidded as she cycled near her home; has been awarded €66,000 in the High Court.
Ms Justice Bronagh O’Hanlon agreed that stones and debris on a tarmacadam surface on the lane on which she was travelling and where she was thrown, constituted “a nuisance and a danger to the public”.
Mrs Nuala Ryan aged 61, of St Bernadette’s Terrace, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, had sued Tipperary County Council over the accident which occurred on January 4th, 2014; claiming that her injuries were caused, not by the Council’s failure to repair the road surface on the lane-way, but by alleged negligent design and overall construction.
Claiming no liability could be attached to them; Tipperary County Council denied this claim; contending that same gravel on which Mrs Ryan skidded had been identified as either the breakup of the actual surface or some other infill material which had been used to repair existing potholes, by a third party.
Mrs Ryan informed the court that having skidded and fallen on the gravel which she described as being similar to “marbles on top of a skating rink” she had become trapped and unable to move, before being assisted by two other female road users.
Having been brought to hospital, it was established she had received a wedged compression fracture, leaving her with no alternative but to wear a spinal brace for some months afterwards.
A woman who slipped on a patch of icy ground in a Thurles car park three years ago; fracturing her ankle, has lost her action for damages before the High Court having sued Tipperary County Council.
Sixty one year old Mrs Mary Burke, Kylecrue, Drombane, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, had sued Tipperary County Council, following a serious fall which occurred in the Council car park, on February 15th, 2016. Mrs Burke had gone to a parking ticket pay station, which was on a raised concrete plinth, and having completed the transaction she stepped down onto a tarmacadam surface, before she slipping on ice.
The court heard that Mrs Burke, as a result of the fall, had suffered a very nasty fracture of her left ankle and had to be operated on to insert a medical plate and pins.
Mr Justice Kevin Cross stated in his judgement that he could not say that the subsidence in the car park surface, where the ice had accumulated, was due to any negligence or indeed bad workmanship by Tipperary Council.
Mr Justice Cross awarded costs of the one-day hearing against Mrs Burke, but stated that he would be pleased if Tipperary Council decided it would not enforce the costs order against her.
The Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) are investigating the ownership of three houses, in the South east area of Ireland; one of which is in South Co. Tipperary, which they suspect has been used as a cannabis grow-house.
While investigation are still continuing; as yet, no arrests have been made.
Gardaí believe criminal gang members often rent or purchase property, which is then turned into a cannabis grow-house. Same property is then staffed by poverty stricken illegal Vietnamese immigrants, or other Asian personnel, latter who are placed in these houses as crop tenders to cultivate and reap the drug harvest.
Searches undertaken by CAB, latter targeting private homes and businesses in both Dublin and Laois this morning has been described, as yielding significant information in their on-going investigations targeting organized crime.
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