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Real IRA leader who plotted an explosion during the State visit of Britain’s Prince Charles in 2015 has died in prison.
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Seamus McGrane (64) died from a suspected heart attack while serving an eleven and a half years prison sentence for directing terrorism.
McGrane, who was also convicted of IRA membership in 2017, was only the second person to be convicted of directing terrorism in the State - his ally Michael Mc Kevitt was jailed for twenty years in 2003 for directing terrorism. During his trial at the Special Criminal Court in 2017, the court was told that Seamus McGrane discussed an operation involving explosives in the run-up to the State visit of Prince Charles two years ago.
McGrane, last of Little Road, Dromiskin, County Louth was convicted of directing the activities of an unlawful organization, styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hEireann, otherwise the IRA, between the dates of April 19 and May 13, 2015. He was also convicted of membership of the IRA between January 18, 2010, and May 13, 2015.
Sentencing McGrane, presiding judge Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy had said that it was 'a most serious offence'.
The judge also noted that the court had received a letter from Eamon O'Cuiv TD, in which the Fianna Fail member expressed the opinion that McGrane was 'fully supportive' of Mr O'Cuiv's efforts to facilitate the peace process.
The judge said, however, that the TD's opinions were 'unconvincing' in the light of McGrane's history.
The court heard evidence from two audio recordings, from April and May 2015, of McGrane and Donal O'Coisdealbha in conversation in the snug of The Coachman’s Inn on the Airport Road that had been bugged by garda detectives. McGrane had issued instructions to Mr O'Coisdealbha regarding meeting other people and had made statements about providing bomb-making material for others. McGrane mentioned experimenting with the development of explosives and discussed strategy and his involvement in training people in the IRA and “swearing in” people to the organisation. The bugging also referred to a “military operation” of significance and “the main attack” on May 19, 2015, the date that Prince Charles was due to carry out a State visit. McGrane had also referred in the recordings to an attack on Palace Barracks, the MI5 Headquarters in Northern Ireland on April 12, 2010 and to a bomb on a railway line.
McGrane instructed Mr O'Coisdealbha that the operation should not be an “embarrassment” and that it was not to occur in Sligo or Galway, where Prince Charles was due to visit.
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The target of the attack, the trial was told, was to be the Cross of Sacrifice, a monument in Glasnevin cemetery in Dublin commemorating British and Irish soldiers who fought in World War 1.
McGrane was arrested six days before the planned attack.
Searches related to the plot were then conducted at McGrane's home in Dromiskin and an adjoining property at the back of his house, as well as a house at Harbour Court in Courttown, County Wexford and a locker at Maynooth University.
The court heard that a significant amount of explosive substances were found at McGrane’s house.
There were detonators, glucose, ammunition and mortars.
In Harbour Court detectives found a water butt containing rockets and semtex.
At Maynooth University, a time and power unit (TPU) and broken circuit board were found in a specific locker which only Mr O'Coisdealbha, the man McGrane had been instructing, had access to.
McGrane had two previous convictions. The first was for IRA membership and dates back to 1976 for which he spent one year in custody. The second conviction, from 2001, related to training others in the use of firearms for which he was jailed for four years by the Special Criminal Court. In October 1999 McGrane had been arrested in County Meath in a training camp discovered in an underground bunker, where a firing-range had been constructed.
In November 2016, Mr O'Coisdealbha (26), of Abbeyfield, Killester in Dublin 5 pleaded guilty to membership of the IRA on May 13, 2015 and he was jailed for five and a half years.
Speaking after the sentencing in 2017 outside the Criminal Courts of Justice, Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Maguire, of the Special Detective Unit (SDU), said that it was a 'very significant conviction' for An Garda Siochana.
He said that while the sentence was not something he wanted to comment on, he did want to acknowledge the work that had gone into the operation from the investigative team in the SDU and the Crime and Security Section.
He said that these were 'people who in the normal course of events never get mentioned due to the nature of the work that they do'.
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