Alleged I.R.A. Men Again Remanded
(NJZ. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 2. Armed police closely guarded the courthouse at Omagh, a Northern Ireland border town, today, for the resumed hearing of a charge against eight men arrested after, a weapon-, snatching raid on the local military barracks. Other police carrying Sten guns stood on the courthouse roof watching the small crowd, mostly of farmers, gathered outside as the men arrived two big convoys by a secret route from Belfast Prison. Only reporters were admitted to the brief hearing, during which the- defendants, handcuffed m pairs and surrounded by police, were again remanded until Wednesday next week. . The eight men, all from the Irish Republics, whose frontier runs within 10 miles of the town l , were charged with the attempted murder of Fusilier J. T. O’Callaghan, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, at the Omagh depot on October IT. They declined to speak when asked if they had any questions to ask.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27499, 5 November 1954, Page 11
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