Brinks Allied: £2.8m in 10 minutes

THE £2.8 million Brinks Allied cash robbery in January 1995 was one of the most cash-rich crimes of its kind witnessed in this country.

The robbery commanded the attention of the media for a long time after its execution, a fact which from the immediate wake of the operation did not go down well with the Dublin criminals thought to have been behind the heist.

Dublin journalist Veronica Guerin was shot in the leg by a man who called to her home after writing a series of probing reports on the Brinks Allied robbery.