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Wed 11 Nov 2010Army is called in as council sandbags stolen
THE ARMY was called in to help a Dublin local authority fill breaches in its coastline over the weekend after 1,000 sandbags laid on Friday and Saturday were stolen by Sunday.
Fingal County Council workers had laid sandbags to fill gaps in coastal walls in the Sutton and Baldoyle area. However, when council staff returned to these areas on Sunday morning to put extra preventative measures in place they discovered a significant number of sandbags had gone missing.
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