British agents aided capture

ON February 22, 2007, a Cork man met two arms dealers in a London warehouse — everyone at the meeting stripping naked to show that they were not wearing wires or any electronic surveillance devices.

By April 20, 2007, this Cork man, Glen Geasley, was being arrested at Rochestown Park Hotel as he handed over a Tommy Hilfiger bag stuffed with £45,000 in sterling made up of English and Northern Irish notes.

At another hotel, the Ibis in Dunkettle, at the same time, Geasley’s friend and accomplice, Seán Callinan, was getting into the back of a Ford van laden with a lethal arsenal of guns including rocket launchers and AK47s, only to be arrested seconds later by members of the Emergency Response Unit.