A Co Down court was told that an extreme right group had a 15-point plan for an attack on a mosque in Co Galway, which would have involved five people.<\/p>\n
Details of the alleged plan were revealed at Downpatrick Magistrates’ Court during a bail application by a 38-year-old man facing terror charges following a cross-border investigation.<\/p>\n
Connor Pollock, of Croob Park in Ballynahinch, Co Down, appeared by video link.<\/p>\n
He is accused of withholding information about the preparation of a terrorist act.<\/p>\n
The charge relates to a planned attack on a mosque by a group calling itself the Irish Defence Army.<\/p>\n
He is also charged with possession of documents or records useful to terrorists.<\/p>\n
That relates to his alleged possession of a claim of responsibility by the same organisation for the burning of a mosque.<\/p>\n
The same document included threats of violence against facilities for migrants and those providing them, warning that they would be regarded as “legitimate targets”.<\/p>\n
The final charge relates to the possession of a mobile phone for purposes connected with the preparation of an act of terrorism.<\/p>\n
Objecting to a bail application, a PSNI Detective Constable told the court a document recovered as part of the cross border investigation contained details of the proposed attack.<\/p>\n
The officer said it included roles for five people, believed to be, what she referred to, as an active service unit of the Irish Defence Army.<\/p>\n
She said Mr Pollock had also been in possession of a claim of responsibility for the planned attack on the mosque, which made it clear that other attacks were also planned.<\/p>\n
Refusing the application for bail, Deputy District Judge Liam McStay said messages on Mr Pollock\u2019s phone “seem to indicate he is more than a bystander”.<\/p>\n
Connor Pollock was remanded in custody to appear in court again next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Co Down court was told that an extreme right group had a 15-point plan for an attack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-198467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}