Dissident leader to be sentenced over Royal visit explosion plot

Seamus McGrane, aged 63, from Dromiskin in County Louth, was remanded in custody pending sentencing at the Special Criminal Court on 7 December 2017 following his conviction on two terrorism-related charges. The court found him guilty of directing the activities of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army between 19 April and 13 May 2015, and of membership in that organisation from 18…