Editing Real Irish Republican Army (section)

===Arrests===
Despite the RIRA's renewed activity, the organisation was weakened by the arrest of key members and continued infiltration by informers. McKevitt was arrested on 29 March 2001 and charged with membership of an illegal organisation and directing terrorism, and remanded into custody.<ref name="Mooney" />{{rp|378–381}} In July 2001, following the arrests of McKevitt and other RIRA members, British and Irish government sources hinted that the organisation was now in disarray.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title = Real IRA a 'high threat' |url =https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1426950/Real-IRA-a-high-threat.html |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=8 April 2003 |access-date=3 May 2007}}</ref> Other key figures were jailed, including the RIRA's Director of Operations, [[Liam Campbell]], who was convicted of membership of an illegal organisation,<ref>{{cite news | title = Dissidents dub IRA 'traitors' | author = Shane Harrison | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/1617836.stm | work = BBC News | date = 24 October 2001 | access-date = 5 May 2007}}</ref> and [[Colm Murphy]] who was convicted of conspiring to cause the Omagh bombing, although this conviction was overturned on appeal.<ref>{{cite news |last=McKittrick |first=David |date=26 January 2002 |title=Omagh bomb plot man is sentenced to 14 years' jail |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/omagh-bomb-plot-man-is-sentenced-to-14-years-jail-9224896.html |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |access-date=17 April 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Omagh bombing convict wins appeal |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/omagh-bombing-convict-wins-appeal-487589.html |newspaper=The Independent |agency=[[Press Association]] |date=21 January 2005 |access-date=17 April 2007}}</ref>

On 10 April 2002, Ruairi Convey, from [[Donaghmede]], Dublin, was jailed for three years for membership of the RIRA. During a search of his home a list of names and home addresses of members of the Gardaí's [[Emergency Response Unit (Garda)|Emergency Response Unit]] was found.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dissident republican jailed for IRA membership |url=http://archives.tcm.ie/breakingnews/2002/04/10/story46042.asp |publisher=BreakingNews.ie |date=10 April 2002 |access-date=3 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070604145536/http://archives.tcm.ie/breakingnews/2002/04/10/story46042.asp |archive-date= 4 June 2007 }}</ref> Five RIRA members were also convicted in connection with the 2001 bombing campaign in England, and received sentences varying from 16 years to 22 years' imprisonment.<ref>{{cite web | title = Real IRA bombers jailed | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2930957.stm | publisher = BBC | date = 9 April 2003 | access-date = 5 May 2007}}</ref> In October 2002, McKevitt and other RIRA members imprisoned in [[Portlaoise Prison]] issued a statement calling for the organisation to stand down.<ref name="Mooney" />{{rp|410–411}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Real IRA announces its disbandment |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2002/1020/31093-realira/ |publisher=Raidió Teilifís Éireann |date=20 October 2002 |access-date=3 May 2007}}</ref> After a two-month trial, McKevitt was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment in August 2003 after being convicted of directing terrorism.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=McKevitt sentenced to 20 years |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/aug/07/northernireland |newspaper=The Guardian |agency=Press Association |date=7 August 2003 |access-date=3 May 2007}}</ref>