Arms smugglers’ trial - A job very well done

THE great efforts made by An Garda Síochána and two undercover agents from Britain’s Serious Organised Crime Agency to put aspirant gun runners Sean Callinan and Glen Geasley behind bars deserves all of our thanks and congratulations.

In a script that would have put the Coen brothers in line for another set of Oscars the two police forces co-operated to make sure that this pair, working on behalf of one of Limerick’s deadly crime gangs, did not get to bring their lethal cargo to Ireland.

Undoubtedly, that cache of 24 weapons — rocket launchers, Kalashnikovs, US assault rifles, Uzi submachine guns and semi-automatic pistols — would have wreaked carnage in our cities on a scale beyond even the Coen brothers’ vivid and violent imaginations.