Real IRA leader Seamus McGrane has been jailed for eleven and a half years for plotting a bomb attack during the visit of Prince Charles to Ireland.
The 63-year-old, with an address of Dromiskin, Co. Louth, was arrested after being put under surveillance in early 2015.
He was secretly recorded making plans with another man in the snug of a pub near Dublin airport.
Outside court afterwards, Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Maguire praised all those who brought about what’s only the second conviction of its kind…………
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