A total of 18 people were arrested yesterday in North Dublin during a day-long garda crime crackdown as part of Operation Thor, gardaí have revealed.

A lost drug shipment was suspected of sparking the appalling violence that resulted in a hard-working and loving family “losing everything”.

GARDAÍ are investigating a new form of tiger kidnapping in which a robber posed as a taxi driver when collecting a post mistress.

A SECURITY guard was forced to shovel at least 200,000 out the hatch of a van as his colleague outside had a shotgun held to his head during a raid by two armed robbers.