Two Co Cork men who took part in a firebomb attack on a house in Cork last year have been jailed for a total of 15 years by the Special Criminal Court.
Anthony Crowley (22) was jailed for ten years and Alan Hickey (20) for five years for the firebomb attack and for firearms and related offences committed earlier.
Prosecuting counsel Ms Úna Ní Raifeartaigh told the court the State would not be proceeding with a charge of membership of an illegal organisation against the two men.
The court was told that Crowley and Hickey were arrested as they sat in a car ten miles from where a van loaded with six five gallon drums of petrol "exploded in a fireball" after it was ignited outside a detached house at Littleisland.
Detective Superintendent Tony Quilter told the court that the two were both on bail at the time of the firebomb attack - Crowley on firearms charges and Hickey for withholding information from the gardaí relating to the guns. Jailing the men
Mr Justice Richard Johnson said that both accused were engaged in the preparation of a van for use as a bomb.
He said that although they were not present when the bomb was ignited the court was satisfied that the two men were part of a common enterprise and must bear equal responsibility as the two men already dealt with by the court.
Last month, two men who drove the van to the house - Jonathan O'Rourke (24), of Willison Park, Blarney, Co Cork, and Paul McCarthy (22), of Assumption Terrace, Station Road, Blarney - were each jailed for four years for their part in the firebomb attack.