CAB to give overview of republican criminal activity

The Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) is to supply an updated analysis of republican criminal activity to the high-level Garda assessment on the status of the Provisional IRA.

CAB will provide a report on organised crime gangs operated by members and associates of the IRA and an assessment of where the tens of millions of euro earned by it is going.

The development comes as Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald again questioned where the profits earned by republican gangs end up.