A high-level Irish-British police operation has hit a massive drug-smuggling operation involving a “major Turkish supplier”, Ireland’s biggest heroin trafficking gang, and a Dublin man known in celebrity circles.

VULNERABLE young staff should not be employed in major bank cash stores following the recent €7.6 million Bank of Ireland robbery, banking representatives have told gardaí.

A MAJOR drug supplier was feeling the heat yesterday as two of his henchmen continued to be questioned on suspicion of laundering the gang’s cash.

GARDAÍ are bracing themselves for a renewal of a violent feud between the INLA and a criminal gang with the imminent release of two INLA men involved in a gruesome battle against the Dublin gang three years ago.