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Blame for armed raid on family pointing to IRA.
(From Belfast Telegraph)
Byline: Breda Heffernan
A cross-border gang has been blamed for the armed raid on a family in Co Monaghan after the getaway van used by the robbers was found burned out at Forkhill, Co Armagh, on Saturday.
The location of the van, in an area that has traditionally been an IRA stronghold, has raised the possibility that it was carried out by IRA volunteers - only days after the release of an IRA statement ordering members to cease their activities.
Gardai and members of the PSNI are now cooperating in the hunt for the gang of five armed and masked raiders who made off with €60,000 from a private house in Carrickmacross late on Friday night.
The gang forced their way into the house at Drumcondrath Road, Leonsbeg, and locked Leonie Martin (32), her five ...
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