COMPUTER experts and forensic accountants are trawling through records seized during a major Garda operation which has already netted hundreds of thousands of euro, believed to be the proceeds of internationally laundered drugs money.

A SENIOR Garda officer yesterday appealed to parents to play an important role in preventing deaths of young people on the roads.

Senior Garda detectives have told the Special Criminal Court that a man on trial for membership of the IRA had been under surveillance for several hours before his arrest.

THE State was yesterday accused of taking its “foot off the pedal” in the fight against heroin, as Customs officers seized their biggest ever haul of the lethal drug.