Two men have pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to terror offences over a plot to set fire to a mosque in Galway last year.<\/p>\n
Darren Gorman and Garrett Pollock both pleaded guilty today to attempting to engage in a terrorist activity or a terrorist-linked activity to damage by fire Maryam Mosque at Old Cottages, Monivea Road, Galway intending to damage or being reckless as to whether such property would be damaged between 4 and 5 November 2025.<\/p>\n
The indictment described it as “an offence which was aggravated by hatred”.<\/p>\n
The charge under the Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005 is the sole count on the indictment preferred against 34-year-old Gorman, who has an address at O’Moore Place, Portlaoise, Co Laois.<\/p>\n
Pollock, 35, from Kilhorne Greene, Annalong, Co Down, is further charged with the possession of two hatchets, a knuckle duster and a hunting knife in a silver BMW at O\u2019Moore Place on 4 November 2025 contrary to Section 9 (5) of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act, 1990.<\/p>\n
He is further charged with possession an explosive substance – four threaded pipe end caps and six litres of hydrogen peroxide – under such circumstances as to give rise to a reasonable suspicion that he did not have it in his possession for a lawful object at O\u2019Moore Place on 4 November that year.<\/p>\n
Mr Pollock is also charged with possessing an explosive substance under such circumstances as to give rise to a reasonable suspicion that he didn\u2019t have it in his possession for a lawful object at An Tobar, Newfoundwell Road, Drogheda, Co Louth on the same date.<\/p>\n
The matter has been put back to 29 June, when the men are to appear by video-link.<\/p>\n
Their two co-accused, Charles Flynn, 35, of Castlerock Avenue, Castleconnel, Co Limerick, and Karolis Peckauskas, 38, of Newfoundwell Road, Drogheda, Co Louth, are also to be produced on the same date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to terror offences over a plot to set…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-489923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489923","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=489923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}