Republicans must halt criminality

INEVITABLY, the finger of suspicion for yesterday’s multi-million euro robbery points at the IRA but the possibility that other criminal gangs were behind the heist cannot be ruled out.

Inevitably, too, the republican movement can be expected to roll out its customary mantra of denial of any involvement in the multi-million euro heist.

Yet, last evening’s discovery of bomb-making equipment in several areas shows beyond doubt that dissidents such as the Real IRA pose a major threat to the security of the State.