7 JULY 1923, Page 10

The trial of the Irish Republicans, led by Mr. Art

O'Brien, who were released from Free State custody and then re-arrested, ended at the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday in the conviction of six out of the seven accused. 0'.Brien and MacGraith were sentenced to two years' imprisonment and their four accomplices to twelve months' imprisonment. Mr. Justice Swift said that they were clearly parties to "a wicked and seditious con- spiracy to overthrow His Majesty's Government in Ire- land," and that this was a terrible crime.