The brother of murdered dissident Republican Alan Ryan has been charged with membership of the IRA.
Vincent Ryan, a 22-year-old from North Dublin, was one of three men charged with IRA membership at Dublin’s Special Criminal Court.
The three were amongst 17 men questioned after a Real IRA show of strength at Alan Ryan’s funeral last week.
Police swooped after a volley of three shots was fired in a salute as Ryan’s coffin was accompanied by men in IRA paraphernalia to the funeral service.
The Irish Independent reports that Ryan’s younger brother was charged with membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself as the Irish Republican Army or the IRA under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act, on September 13 last.
Also charged with the same offence were 33-year-old Nathan Kinsella and 23-year-old Darragh Evans.
Up to 200 officers had raided a number of houses in Dublin, Meath, and Kildare as part of their follow-up operation.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.IrelandNorth | Sep 19, 2012, 09:02 AM EDT
One of my first ceremonial occasions as a newly qualified two star private in the Irish Army in 1977 was as a member of a firing party at the funeral of an Old IRA Volunteer in a west Dublin cemetry. (My very own belated O'Donovan Rossa episode!) But then, that was a lifetime ago, when terrorism (sic) was an inescapable reality for him. And before the proletariat of his time gave birth to a petit-bourgeoisie who, due to their privileged circumstances, found it necessary to forget the inconvenient truth of their grandparental attempted symbolic regicide.
aloistmartin | Sep 17, 2012, 04:37 PM EDT
Bi-Partisan Bourgeois Sectarianism ! Another excuse to Polarize Irish Society in the direction of the Upper Class ! Down with the 1921 Treaty ! Down with the Good Friday and St. Andrew Agreements !
seamus60 | Sep 17, 2012, 02:34 PM EDT
Well well, Patrick he is only charged with membership totally contridicting your earlier headline. Maybe wearing a black and white is suffice as proof of membership to what ever the authorities decide. But we`ll never know cause we don`t have to. Ruling by fooling is alive and getting healthier by the day in Ireland
Searlit | Sep 17, 2012, 01:19 PM EDT
@pilib04, they don't seem to mess with the human-trafficking cartel, either.
pilib04 | Sep 17, 2012, 10:25 AM EDT
Who has been charged with Ryan's murder and how many arrests have been made. Oh, wait a minute, no one messes with the Drug Cartel.