Ireland a ‘great place for smugglers to operate’

Ireland is a target for international crime gangs despite the best efforts of the Revenue Commissioners, a retailers’ group has claimed.

Retailers Against Smuggling, which represents 3,000 independent shops, said that Revenue’s most recent defaulters’ list, published on Tuesday, highlighted this.

RAS spokesman Benny Gilsenan said the list for the period January to March 2015, showed every single person convicted of cigarette smuggling was a foreign national and nearly half gave addresses outside of the State.