A list of recent robberies from cash-in-transit vans.
March 11th - Armed raiders take €120,000 as an ATM machine at Tesco in Arklow, Co Wicklow, is being loaded. One shot discharged but no injuries.
March 14th - €2.2 million stolen by a criminal gang after they hijacked a Securicor van at Strawberry Beds, Dublin, as it began its daily deliveries. The family of Securicor worker, Paul Richardson, was taken hostage at their home in Raheny the previous night.
January 11th - Securicor worker was shot in the leg by armed raiders as he was robbed at gunpoint of cash he was about to deliver to the Ulster Bank in Clane, Co Kildare. The raiders escaped with €14,000.
June 2004 - €€140,000 stolen by a gang who used a digger to rip an ATM machine from the outside wall of a bank in Rosslare, Co Wexford.
May 2004 - €250,000 stolen from cash-in-transit van delivering to an ATM in Swords, Dublin. Gardaí believe the gang behind the attack had been responsible for a series of armed robberies in Dublin and Kildare in preceding weeks in which €750,000 was stolen.
February 2004 - About €500,000 was stolen in three raids in Maynooth, Cornelscourt and Castleknock. Masked and armed men held up staff delivering cash to ATMs during the three incidents. Money was taken from the cash vans and the ATMs, which in some cases were pulled off the walls.
August 2002 - Raiders escaped with €420,000 after they held up a Securicor van at the Omni shopping centre in Santry, Dublin.
January 1987 - A Dublin gang robbed £2.1 million after hijacking a Securicor van at Marino in Dublin, the second such robbery there by the same gang.
The first robbery by the gang took place in February 1986 when a Securicor van was robbed of more than £1 million. A well-known Dublin criminal who has since made a substantial tax settlement with Revenue was suspected of masterminding both robberies.