Leading ONH chief Carl Reilly to face court on membership charge

A LEADING dissident republican is due in court tomorrow charged with directing the activities of a terror group called Oglaigh na hEireann (ONH).

Carl Reilly, 39, was arrested on Friday by detectives from the PSNI’s Terrorist Investigation Unit.

He was detained under section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

Reilly is suspected by detectives of being a member of Oglaigh na hEireann, the military wing of dissident group Republican Network for Unit (RNU).

He is to face Belfast Magistrates’ Court tomorrow morning, Tuesday, October 19, for a first remand hearing.

The republican will also be charged with membership of a proscribed organisation.

Officers searched Conflict Resolution Services (Ireland) on the Falls Road and Ardoyne Avenue on Saturday.

Police uplifted party funds, party bank cards and financial documents.

In 1999, he was arrested along with a Continuity IRA gang after they opened fired on Woodbourne RUC station in west Belfast.

He and Thomas Crossan were later jailed over the gun attack.

Crossan was shot on the Springfield Road on Good Friday, April 2014.

Following his release, Reilly helped form ONH, a splinter group of the Real IRA, in 2007 to oppose Sinn Fein’s peace process strategy.

He once claimed MI5 tried to recruit him as an informant at an airport in London