SEQUEL TO DARING TANKER SNATCH AS GARDAÍ CONTINUE 2-YEAR PROBE INTO ‘BLAYNEY FUEL SWOOP INCIDENT
2 July 2015
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By PATSY McARDLE
GARDAI in the Louth/Meath Division confirmed during the week that investigations are still ongoing along the Border into the snatch of a fuel tanker from an Irish army base more than two years ago— after the vehicle was intercepted along with a consignment of illicit fuel in a swoop near Castleblayney.
The tanker was impounded at Aiken Military Barracks at Point Road in Dundalk, on May 26th 2013, after being escorted to the base by gardai and revenue officers following the swoop near the Monaghan/Armagh Armagh border, at Drumacon, a few miles from Castleblayney.
It emerged the Northern-registered tanker was …
