Ward guilty plea for rifle possession

A MAN has pleaded guilty to possession of a semi-automatic rifle at a house where video footage from a phone seized by gardai showed the weapon being fired.

- BY EOIN REYNOLDS

Glen Ward, 32, appeared briefly yesterday morning at the three-judge, non-jury Special Criminal Court.

He entered a guilty plea to the charge that on January 1, 2022, at an address in Finglas, Dublin, he was in possession of or had control of a .223 calibre Remington AR-15 semi-automatic rifle in circumstances giving rise to a reasonable inference that he did not have it for a lawful purpose.