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Wed 09 Sep 2008Record weapons seizure in cross-Border operation
GARDAÍ HAVE seized what they describe as the biggest haul of gangland weaponry in the history of the State following a four-month international operation into the activities of a leading Dublin criminal.
Forty-one firearms, mostly destined for crime gangs in Dublin and Limerick, were seized in the operation which involved police and customs from the Republic, Northern Ireland and the Netherlands. A small number of the weapons had been ordered by drugs gangs in the North.
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