A 43-year-old man charged with IRA membership has been released on bail at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin.
Jim Smyth was arrested in Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan last month by members of the Special Detective Unit as part of ongoing investigations into dissident republican activity which discovered a cache of firearms including AK47 assault rifles, mortars, detonators, detonating cord and other component parts of IED's.
Mr Smyth, with an address at Aghalissabeagh in Scotstown Co Monaghan, is charged with membership of an unlawful organization, styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hEireann, otherwise the IRA, on November 25, 2015.
On Tuesday, Detective Inspector William Hanrahan told the three-judge, non-jury court that gardai were objecting to bail on grounds of the "seriousness of the charge".
Detective Chief Superintendent John McMahon argued there was an objection to bail under Section 2 of the Bail Act - which allows a senior officer to give evidence that bail should not be granted in order to prevent the commission of a serious offence.
However, Mr Justice Paul Butler, presiding with Judge John O'Hagan and Judge Ann Ryan, said: "In this particular case, with a charge merely of membership, a history of no previous convictions and strong roots in the community, without doubt Mr Smyth is entitled to bail."
He outlined the bail conditions, which require Mr Smyth to sign on daily at Monaghan Garda Station, obey a daily curfew of 12pm to 7am and provide a mobile phone number to gardai.
Mr Smyth must also surrender his passport and all travel documents, not leave the jurisdiction and not associate with anybody charged with a scheduled offence.
He was released on his own bond of Euro20,000.
