Northern Bank raid - Crime seems to pay very well indeed

IT will be two years on Wednesday since the Northern Bank raid, the most audacious bank robbery in the history of the island, yet nobody has been brought to justice.

Three people have been charged in Northern Ireland, but none has been tried. One man was arrested in Dublin with thousands of pounds in sterling notes, but his trial has been delayed repeatedly.

Justice Minister Michael McDowell suggested that the IRA were trying to buy a bank in Bulgaria for money laundering purposes.