Waste land searched for gang weapons

A SEARCH of waste land in west Dublin for weapons belonging to a gang suspected of murdering journalist Veronica Guerin is to…

A SEARCH of waste land in west Dublin for weapons belonging to a gang suspected of murdering journalist Veronica Guerin is to continue today, writes Jim Cusack, Security Correspondent.

Special Army teams using metal detectors searched the two-acre site yesterday after gardai received information that the gang buried weapons at Old County Road. The site has been searched by gardai before. The murder investigators have already seized over 100 weapons.

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