Gun-smuggle accused bailed

0 comments 6/29/2006 Posted by Winnower

29 June 2006
The Irish News

A Co Armagh woman accused of involvement in a Real IRA gun-smuggling plot was granted High Court bail yesterday. The Crown alleges that Alison Kearns (37), from Tannaghmore Green in Lurgan, discussed weapons smuggling with an undercover agent during an operation mounted by British security staff in the summer of 2004 to target Real IRA members connected to weapons and cigarette smuggling. Appearing at the same bail hearing yesterday was co-accused Dermot Gregory (37), of Concession Road, Crossmaglen. Mr Justice McLaughlin halted the hearing on the grounds that the evidence was extremely complex but released Mrs Kearns on her own bail of £5,000.
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Smuggling accused is given bail

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29 June 2006
Belfast News Letter

A Co Armagh woman accused of being involved in a Real IRA gun smuggling plot was granted High Court bail yesterday.

Alison Kearns, a mother-of-two from Tannaghmore Green, Lurgan, appeared in court last week on a charge of inviting an unnamed person to provide weapons with the intent they be used for terrorism.

Crown lawyer Charles McKay told the court that in 2004, security staff from the UK mounted an operation using 'agents' to target members of the Real IRA connected to weapons and cigarette smuggling.
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Intelligence sting catches alleged Real IRA's number two in arms deal

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26 Jun 2006
The Herald

The alleged second-in-command of the breakaway terrorist group the Real IRA has been remanded in custody after a joint MI5, French intelligence service and Irish police operation to foil the smuggling of a consignment of weapons and explosives. Paul McCaugherty, 39, from Lurgan, Armagh, is also accused of conspiracy to possess firearms, conspiracy to murder members of the security forces in Northern Ireland and supplying cash to buy arms and ammunition. Mr McCaugherty is the fourth alleged member of the group to be charged in the last week in a major security crackdown in the border counties of Armagh and Fermanagh.
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Lurgan man in court on Real IRA charges

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26 Jun 2006
Irish Times

A Co Armagh man appeared before magistrates in Lurgan on Saturday on charges that he plotted to kill members of the security forces and tried to procure weapons. Paul McCaugherty (39), Beech Court, Lurgan, appeared at a special sitting of Craigavon Magistrates Court.

The court was told by a detective chief inspector that Mr McCaugherty made no reply when the six charges were put to him. He was accused of being second in command of the Real IRA between December 1st, 2005, and June 19th, 2006. He was also charged with conspiring to murder members of the security forces in Northern Ireland between May 24th, 2005, and June 19th, 2006.
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Man on Real IRA charge

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26 Jun 2006
The Belfast News Letter

A 39-YEAR-OLD man appeared before magistrates on Saturday on charges that he plotted to kill members of the security forces and tried to procure weapons.

Paul McCaugherty, 39, from Beech Court in Lurgan, Co Armagh appeared at a special sitting of Craigavon Magistrates Court. The court was told by a detective chief inspector that McCaugherty made no reply when the six charges were put to him.
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Senior Real IRA suspect in court

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25 Jun 2006
The Observer
Henry McDonald

The alleged second-in-command of the Real IRA remains in custody today facing charges that he plotted to kill members of the security forces and to obtain weapons. Paul McCaugherty, 39, from Beech Court in Lurgan, appeared at a special sitting of Craigavon magistrates' court in Co Armagh yesterday. He was accused of being the deputy head of the Real IRA between 1 December 2005 and 19 June 2006.
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Man in dock on Real IRA charges. Court date for terror suspect

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25 Jun 2006
Sunday Mirror
Paul Carson

A man believed by police to be second in command of the Real IRA appeared in court yesterday charged with terrorist offences. Paul McCaugherty, 39, appeared before magistrates on charges that he plotted to kill members of the security forces and tried to procure weapons. McCaugherty, from Beech Court in Lurgan, Co Armagh, appeared at a special sitting of Craigavon Magistrates Court. The court was told by a Detective Chief Inspector that McCaugherty made no reply when the six charges were put to him.
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MI5 foil Sam missile plot

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25 Jun 2006
Martin Breen
News of the World

Real IRA planned huge terror spree

The Real IRA went shopping for surface-to-air missiles to shoot down British army helicopters. The renegade republican faction also tried to buy anti-tank weapons from MI5 agents they thought were international arms dealers. Even though Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt is serving a 20- year jail term in Portlaoise Prison for directing terrorism, security sources say he was aware of the plot which was busted last week. The Real IRA's deadly plan was thwarted in a massive undercover operation involving the PSNI and MI5.
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Real IRA bomb plot unmasked

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25 June 2006
The Sunday Times
Liam Clarke

A joint MI5 and Irish police sting operation appears to have thwarted plans by the Real IRA to launch a gun and bomb campaign in Ireland and Britain aimed at derailing the peace process.

MI5 officers posed as French arms dealers to uncover what appears to have been the dissidents' plans, obtain their shopping list of weapons and drain them of funds.
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Alleged Top N Ireland Dissident Faces Weapons Charges

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24 June 2006
Dow Jones International News

A man identified by police as the deputy commander of an Irish Republican Army dissident group was arraigned Saturday on charges of trying to smuggle weapons, including surface-to-air missiles and plastic explosives, into Northern Ireland.

Paul McCaugherty, 39, was flanked by two police officers as he appeared in Craigavon Magistrates Court, where he was ordered held without bail until his next court appearance on July 20.
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