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A Dublin man who a senior garda said had been a member of the IRA since he was 15-years-old has been jailed for five years at the Special Criminal Court. Vincent Kelly was found guilty by the three-judge court earlier this month of being a member of the IRA on June 7th last year. Kelly, who is now 21, of Empress Place, Ballybough, Dublin was arrested when gardaí found a handgun hidden inside a van on the Malahide Road in Dublin.
Psychiatric patient inquest date
An inquest is to be held into the death of a psychiatric patient at Dublin's Central Mental Hospital after a nurse was jailed for assaulting him. Psychiatric nurse Bernard Cullen (47), Gormanston, Co Meath, was last week given a four-year sentence for assaulting Gary Connell, who died later. Dublin City Coroner Dr Brian Farrell yesterday set a date of October 12th for the inquest.
Housing body backs partnership
The Irish Council for Social Housing (ICSH) ratified the proposed new social partnership agreement at its agm yesterday.
The ICSH has 300 members who manage more than 18,000 social rented homes. Executive director Donal McManus welcomed the agreement's acknowledgment of the social housing problem and the realistic targets it had set.