Probably the slickest beer theft in the world...

THERE will be red faces at Guinness this Christmas after a man drove a truck into the brewery’s main dispatch centre and stole 450 kegs of beer under the noses of security and staff.

Gardaí said the 180 kegs of Guinness, 180 kegs of Budweiser and 90 kegs of Carlsberg had a wholesale value of €64,000.

But sources suggested they could be worth three or four times that at retail level, indicating a final value of about €200,000.

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