The IRA man caught with the three rifles used in the Regency Hotel attack has already been released from prison, we can reveal.
Donegal man Shane Rowan, 44, who was nabbed driving a vehicle carrying the AK-47 type rifles in March 2016, walked free from prison late last year. Rowan, who was also given four concurrent years for IRA membership – was freed in October 2021 – after just five years behind bars.
Sources say he was released due to standard remission on his sentence. Rowan’s name has come to prominence in the past fortnight during the ongoing Special Criminal Court trial of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch.
