Judge Grants Bail for IRA Suspect With Newborn

LONDON — IRA suspect Roisin McAliskey, allowed to leave prison last week to have her baby in a hospital here, was granted bail Tuesday.

McAliskey and newborn daughter Loinnir will not have to return to Holloway Prison and can be moved to a special hospital unit, a court ruled.

The 25-year-old prisoner had been held in the high-security prison in northern London since last year pending extradition to Germany for questioning about an Irish Republican Army mortar attack at a British army base in Osnabruck.

Supporters have argued that there was no reason why McAliskey--whose mother is the republican firebrand Bernadette McAliskey, nee Devlin--should not be granted bail and have been fiercely critical of the conditions in which she had been held in prison. The prison service denied she was being harshly treated.