GARDA DOWN UNDER RTE PLAYER SERIES

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GARDA DOWN UNDER RTE PLAYER SERIES

This weeks edition of the RTE series Crimes & Confessions traces the origins of the allegations of a Garda heavy gang to the Sallins train robbery in 1976.

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