Chief Superintendent believes CIRA statement reader was member of IRA

A Garda Chief Superintendent has given evidence before the Special Criminal Court that he believed Michael Kiely, a 43-year-old from Limerick, was a member of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army. Mr Kiely has pleaded not guilty to the membership charge, which stems from events in January 2013. Chief Superintendent Dave Sheehan told the three-judge court that his belief was not formed on…