Michael O'Toole
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Gardai take another homemade 3D-printed pistol out of the hands of crime gang (opens the original)
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Gardai have taken yet another homemade pistol out of the hands of criminals. The 3D-printed Harlet pistol was seized on Wednesday by detectives investigating a drugs gang in Co Mayo - and sources say it shows just how common the new weapons are. The pistol - which fires deadly .22LR bullets - is at least the 10th 3D-printed firearm seized by gardai all over the country since the start of last year. The latest seizure saw officers from the Mayo Drugs Unit lead an operation in which the gun and dr
Ireland and Britain hold first drill to test response to subsea cable attack (opens the original)
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Ireland and Britain have held a high level exercise - to see how the two countries would respond to an attack on vital subsea cables. The exercise, called Eastern Pearl, was held in Dublin on Wednesday - amid increasing concerns that subsea cables off our shores are easy prey for attack. There are as many as 25 cables off our shores that connect us to Britain, America and some European countries - and are vital to the Irish economy. As well as sending telecommunications data from here, the cable
French police impound Irish trucker's lorry after uncovering 43 driving offences (opens the original)
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A trucking company had to fork out more than €25,000 to get their lorry back - after French cops accused an Irish driver of dozens of driving infractions, it has emerged. Cops in Normandy, in the north west of the country, impounded the truck after they stopped it at a routine traffic checkpoint - and found a whopping 43 different breaches of rules of the road. “Speeding, fraud and overloading: a clean sweep for an Irish truck driver at the wheel of his semi-trailer,” the cops said in an online
Driver accused in Grace Lynch death is ‘considering a plea’, court hears (opens the original)
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The man accused of dangerous driving causing the death of teenager Grace Lynch is considering a plea, a court has heard. Keith Lee, 18, was due to have the book of evidence in the case presented to him at Blanchardstown District Court in west Dublin on Tuesday - but the matter was put back because of the ongoing solicitor’s strike. The solicitors have withdrawn their services in District Court legal aid cases over payment reforms. Mr Lee, with an address at Park View Drive, Poppintree Park in Du
Mob boss Christy Kinahan faces Dubai deadline (opens the original)
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Today is D-Day for mob boss Christy Kinahan to leave his desert bolthole - or be fined just over €10 for every day he outstays his welcome there. The man who built the €1.5 billion drugs and crime cartel has to leave Dubai by the end of Tuesday after the United Arab Emirates cancelled his residence visa. Kinahan, 69, has been living in the middle eastern state for more than a decade - but now he has to find a new home. He had a 30-day grace period after his visa was cancelled at the end of last
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