DETECTIVES from the PSNI’s Terrorist Investigation Unit have charged three men arrested with terrorist offences linked to the funeral of a dissident republican.
They were arrested after the funeral of Michael Barr in Strabane on Thursday when the New IRA gave him a paramilitary send off.
Barr was shot dead in the Sunset House pub in Dublin last month which is being linked to a bloody crime gang feud in the Irish capital.
The three men charged will face Omagh Magistrates’ Court later today charged with wearing clothing or having articles as members or supporters of a proscribed organisation.
Police have released 12 other men, who were also arrested, pending a report to the Public Prosecution Service.
The 15 men were being questioned about alleged membership of the dissident republican group, widely referred to as the new IRA.
Mr Barr was a member of the organisation.
Around a dozen people in paramilitary-style uniform flanked Mr Barr’s cortege on its way to church during the funeral.
Police had mounted both covert and overt surveillance on the funeral after intelligence warned he was to get a paramilitary funeral.