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A major security operation is in place for the funeral in Co Louth of a man suspected of being involved in the Omagh bombing.
Seamus McKenna, 58, died after he fell from scaffolding while repairing a roof at a school in Dundalk last week.
He was acquitted in a civil action taken by relatives of the Omagh bomb victims.
They claimed he was linked to mobile phones used in the 1998 attack, which killed 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins.
Armed checkpoints have been set up on the approach roads to St Mary's Church in Ravensdale and cars are being searched.
Four units of the public order unit are on standby along with the mounted unit, the Emergency Response Unit and uniformed gardaí.
The garda helicopter is monitoring the funeral and officers from the special detective unit are escorting the mourners to prevent any paramilitary display or dissident republican show of strength.
Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan has already warned that the force would not allow any such activity.
"There is one army in this country and there is one policing service. We will ensure that position remains," Commissioner Callinan said on Monday.
"We do not like being present in any large numbers at a particularly sensitive time when people are burying their loved ones. But we will not allow any display of paramilitarism."
A major security operation is in place for the funeral in Co Louth of a man suspected of being involved in the Omagh bombing.
Seamus McKenna, 58, died after he fell from scaffolding while repairing a roof at a school in Dundalk last week.
He was acquitted in a civil action taken by relatives of the Omagh bomb victims.
They claimed he was linked to mobile phones used in the 1998 attack, which killed 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins.
Armed checkpoints have been set up on the approach roads to St Mary's Church in Ravensdale and cars are being searched.
Four units of the public order unit are on standby along with the mounted unit, the Emergency Response Unit and uniformed gardaí.
The garda helicopter is monitoring the funeral and officers from the special detective unit are escorting the mourners to prevent any paramilitary display or dissident republican show of strength.
Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan has already warned that the force would not allow any such activity.
"There is one army in this country and there is one policing service. We will ensure that position remains," Commissioner Callinan said on Monday.
"We do not like being present in any large numbers at a particularly sensitive time when people are burying their loved ones. But we will not allow any display of paramilitarism."