Three Irish students jailed for plotting London bomb attacks

Updated: 20:22, Friday, 21 May 1999

Three Irish university students have been sentenced to a total of 69 years in jail by a judge at the Old Bailey for their part in plotting bomb attacks in London.

Anthony Hyland and Liam Grogan, Captured on surveillance video Anthony Hyland and Liam Grogan, Captured on surveillance video

Three Irish university students have been sentenced to a total of 69 years in jail by a judge at the Old Bailey for their part in plotting bomb attacks in London last year in opposition to the Good Friday Agreement. Anthony Hyland, aged twenty-six, no address given, was sentenced to twenty-five years. Darren Mulholland, aged twenty from Dundalk, and twenty-two year old Liam Grogan, from Naas, were both jailed for twenty-two years.

The three are thought to be members of the dissident Republican group, the so-called Real IRA. The judge told them that they had wanted no part in the Northern peace initiative and had tried to bomb their way to a solution.

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