Times
From David Sharrock in Belfast
WHILE Ian Paisley was impressing upon Tony Blair yesterday the need for the Provisional IRA to “wear sackcloth and ashes”, an Irish court was jailing some of the terrorist’s group’s members for spying on government ministers.
Niall Bennett, 35, from Crumlin in Dublin, was convicted at Dublin’s Special Criminal Court along with Kenneth Donohoe, 26, from Tallaght. Both men were given four-year sentences.
Judge Diarmuid O’Donovan said that, although the IRA is on ceasefire, there was nothing to suggest that the men would not pursue activities with an illegal organisation in the future.
Bennett was found to have documents about a number of TDs — members of the Dail — including three former justice ministers. He is a key election worker for Aengus O Snodaigh, the Sinn Fein TD.
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