'Violence, intimidation, addiction behind all that bling'

Criminal Assets Bureau boss Detective Chief Superintendent Mick Gubbins tells Security Correspondent Cormac O'Keeffe how criminals 'live to spend and spend to live'

Vehicles seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau at a motor dealership in Co Tipperary. Currently, 1,430 targets around the country are under investigation by CAB.

River View Aesthetics in Bandon, West Cork, offered an unnerving service called ‘skin tightening treatment’.

The treatment, called plasma skin tightening, was hailed as an alternative to botox and could be used around the eyes, smile lines, the neck, and the stomach.