Robbery spurs look at IRA criminal ties
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British military security cameras captured the white van at dusk, cutting through fog over the hills of South Armagh, the rugged terrain along the border with the Republic of Ireland.
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His grandfather was one of the heroes of the 1916 Easter rising. Although The Striker has a long-standing association with the Provisional IRA, his current connections to the Real IRA have now confused theories ...
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The robbery of Â£22m from a Belfast bank was a carefully planned heist by professional criminals, say police.
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Police investigating this week's 22 million pound (&#36;42 million) bank robbery in Northern Ireland have carried out raids on commercial and residential properties.
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Police were on Tuesday night hunting a gang that stole an estimated Â£20m in one of the UK&#39;s biggest robberies. The money was taken from the headquarters of Northern Bank, close to Belfast City Hall, on Monday evening.
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Northern Ireland may have enjoyed an uneasy peace in recent years, but as illustrated by a massive bank robbery in December, the fear is that paramilitary gangs have simply turned their guns from politics to profit.
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Tracking down the gang behind the theft of 22 million pounds from a bank in Belfast will be tough given the professional nature of the crime, police say.
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Hopes of a breakthrough in Northern Ireland's fragile peace process were dealt a potentially heavy blow by reports the province's chief police officer is to formally blame the IRA for a massive bank raid.
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An estimated 30 million pounds has been stolen from a bank in Northern Ireland, a source has said. If confirmed, the raid would be one of the biggest ever bank robberies in Britain.
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Police in Northern Ireland said they  had charged five people on Monday with Real IRA membership and  possessing explosives after the weekend discovery of a small  cache of incendiary devices.
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Police on both sides of the Irish border are looking for a gang though to be behind a spate of car thefts
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DUBLIN -- The Irish Republican Army formally denied responsibility yesterday for the $50 million robbery of a Belfast bank, a crime that has thrown Northern Ireland's peace process into disarray. The outlawed IRA, which last month issued a denial through a spokesman, issued its formal statement amid criticism that the first denial didn't come from a sufficiently authoritative source. "We ...
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THE IRA may be planning a retirement fund for its fighters using the proceeds of last week&#39;s robbery of an Australian-owned bank in Belfast, security sources say.
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London - A bank heist in the Northern Irish capital of Belfast, in which two senior members of staff and their families were held hostage, may have netted the robbers more than Â£20m, according to reports on Tuesday.
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Senior Sinn Fein members sanctioned IRA robberies, says the body monitoring paramilitary activity.
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Northern Ireland's police chief on Friday pointed the finger of blame for a massive bank robbery in Belfast last month at the Irish Republican Army (IRA), a verdict that will send shockwaves through the ...
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A bank in Northern Ireland hit by a massive robbery said it was considering the drastic measure of taking several denominations of notes out of circulation as a means of preventing the criminals enjoying their haul.