‘100 a year’ are snuck in through Dublin Airport, Gardaí are concerned

There are serious security concerns at Garda headquarters at revelations of a sophisticated people-smuggling operation at Dublin Airport.

High-level meetings are expected to be held to discuss airport security after it emerged that two Aer Lingus staff had been arrested on suspicion of smuggling immigrants using company vans, including catering vehicles, through staff perimeter exits to a safe house.

Gardaí are investigating suggestions that perhaps 80-100 people could have been smuggled through the airport each year and that the scam could have been going on for years.