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Thu 01 Jan 2009Trial hears of media coverage of Northern Bank raid
The robbery of some £26.5 million from the Northern Bank in Belfast received saturation coverage from the electronic and print media for several days afterwards, a money laundering trial heard today.
Supt John Gilligan of the Garda Press Office told Cork Circuit Criminal Court that the robbery on December 20th 2004 was covered extensively with front page stories in the papers and frequent mention on all the main radio and TV news bulletins.
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