'IRA leader' launches legal battle
THE alleged former leader of the IRA has launched a legal bid to block his trial for tax evasion.
Thomas 'Slab' Murphy faces nine charges of failing to file returns on his income, profits or gains over eight years from 1996.
However, the republican accused Irish state lawyers of abusing the rules of justice after they gave his solicitor just four minutes' notice when they applied to bring the case before a non-jury court.
Murphy's farm in Ballybinaby, Hackballscross, straddling the border between Louth and Armagh was raided in 2006.
More than 140,000 in mixed currencies, 30,000 cigarettes and 8,000 litres of fuel were seized.
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