Criminal Assets Bureau targeting biggest rural burglary gangs in major crackdown

The Criminal Assets Bureau is targeting the assets and incomes of the country’s seven biggest travelling gangs in a major crackdown.

Their hit list consists of three gangs in west Dublin, an international gang based in Limerick, a notorious family in Waterford, another outfit in Galway, and a seventh from the Midlands.

The impact of travelling burglary gangs, who have been terrorising large parts of the country, has become one of the biggest crime priorities for both Garda Commissioner Nóirín Ó Sullivan and Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald in recent years.