Dissident republican leader jailed for 11.5 years over Prince Charles bomb plot

Seamus McGrane, aged 63, of Dromiskin in County Louth, has been sentenced to eleven and a half years imprisonment following his conviction at the Special Criminal Court of directing an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army. The conviction arose from activities between April and May 2015, a period during which gardaí conducted extensive surveillance operations at a public house on Dublin's…