Man remanded over IRA membership

A trial date has been set for a 31-year-old man arrested by Irish police as part of an investigation into IRA money laundering.

Don Bullman of Fernwood Crescent, Wilton, County Cork, will stand trial at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin next March accused of IRA membership.

The court heard gardai recovered £54,000 in a washing powder box when he was arrested in Dublin on 16 February.

Mr Bullman was remanded on continuing bail until the trial date.

A detective told the court that at the time of his arrest, Mr Bullman was seated in a Northern Ireland registered car at Heuston station with two men from the province.

He said he suspected "the £54,000 was a money laundering operation on behalf of the IRA."