Ramming 'was not a keystone cops operation'

A Special Branch detective today denied that anti-terrorist detectives who rammed a car carrying explosive substances were engaged in a "keystone cops" operation.

Detective Garda Fergal Dardis, Special Detective Unit, told the Special Criminal Court that he was one of a team of detectives who travelled from Dublin to Dundalk on 9 June 2001 to monitor the activities of dissident republicans.