A schoolteacher was in court in Belfast yesterday on six terrorism charges, including membership of the IRA. Ms Rose Marie McLaughlin (24), of Abbey Court, Bangor, Co Down, was the sixth person to be charged in connection with an ongoing RUC investigation into the gathering of information about terrorism targets.
Last night detectives were understood to be questioning several other people at Castlereagh holding centre in Belfast.
Ms McLaughlin was charged at the Magistrates Court with collecting information about the home of a former high rankings IRUC officer in the north Downs' area and communicating the information to others.
She was also charged with collecting information about the security and lay out of Bangor RUC station which could be useful to terrorists planning or carrying out acts of violence.
Other charges were conspiring to collect information about members of the security forces, and two counts of IRA membership on different dates in 1996.
She was remanded in custody to Lisburn Court next Monday.
Ms McLaughlin was born in London but raised in Letterkenny, Co Donegal. A graduate of Queen's University, Belfast, she was on the teaching staff of a school in the eastern outskirts of the city.