Duncan for trial on IRA charge

A man at the centre of a failed attempt to extradite him to Britain has been returned for trial to the Special Criminal Court…

A man at the centre of a failed attempt to extradite him to Britain has been returned for trial to the Special Criminal Court on an IRA membership charge.

Mr Anthony Duncan (26), unemployed, from Kippure Park, Finglas, Dublin, was returned for trial to the Special Criminal Court at the Dublin District Court in Green Street on Monday. He is charged with IRA membership on April 12th. Judge David Riordan remanded him in custody.

Mr Duncan was arrested in Dublin in April and was brought to the Dublin District Court on an extradition warrant. But the application failed after the State admitted the documentation was "fundamentally flawed" and he was freed before his rearrest on the IRA membership charge.

Gardai later admitted they had made an error in processing the original extradition warrant for the court case.

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