Gardaí discovered a Irl £63,000-valued Scania transporter, which had been stolen in 1994 from a Customs and Excise pound at Rosslare Port, when they searched a north Co Louth premises in 1998.

A former garda accused of involvement in a £151,000 insurance fraud conspiracy in 1996 told detectives he saw a car and a truck lying in a ditch on a new Co Leitrim bypass.