Police to blame IRA for bank raid
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The IRA looks set to be blamed for the Â£22m bank raid in Belfast by Chief Constable Hugh Orde, the BBC learns.
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Gerry Adams is meeting Tony Blair for the first time since the IRA was blamed for December's Â£26.5m bank raid.
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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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A GANG of robbers have stolen millions of pounds from a bank in the centre of Belfast, police said. Raiders targeted the vault in Wellington Street after holding two senior bank officials hostage in their own homes.
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Gerry Adams meets Bertie Ahern for the first time since the IRA were blamed for a Â£26m bank raid.
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Police are investigating the possibility that the van used in the Northern Bank raid may have been stolen in Wales.
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Criminals in Northern Ireland are targeted by a reinforced team of special police financial investigators.
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A massive bank robbery in Northern Ireland last week might have been carried out by paramilitary group the IRA as a way of providing a "pension fund" for activists ahead of its dissolution.
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A gang held the families of two  Northern Ireland bank officials hostage for 24 hours before  stealing more than 20 million pounds ($39 million) in one of  Britain's biggest ever robberies, police said on Tuesday.
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BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair and Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy have been advised that the IRA was almost certainly responsible for last week's 22 million ($55 million) heist at an Australian-owned ...
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland - The Irish Republican Army denied involvement Thursday in this week&#39;s massive robbery of the Northern Bank in Belfast.
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BELFAST -- Police raided properties yesterday in two Irish Republican Army strongholds of Belfast in search of $42.5 million stolen this week from a bank's underground vault.
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BELFAST - Police have confirmed that more than Â£22 million ($60 million) was stolen from the National Australia Bank-owned Northern Bank in Belfast and that they are investigating the possibility the theft was carried out by paramilitaries.
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Gerry Adams says he "might be wrong" in his belief the IRA was not involved in a Â£26.5m bank robbery in Belfast.
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More than 22 million pounds (31.48 million euros, 42.1 million dollars) was taken in this week's dramatic robbery at the Northern Bank in Belfast, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said.
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Northern Ireland's fragile peace process has been damaged by a massive bank heist last month in Belfast attributed to the Catholic paramilitary Irish Republican Army, the minister for the province said.
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Gerry Adams, head of the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, warned that the Northern Ireland peace process was facing new problems following allegations that the IRA had been behind a major bank robbery.