A cross-border cartel has stolen hundreds of thousands of pounds of cash from rural areas via ATMs this year, using a list of potential targets. The group has connections to suspects in the murder of Adrian Donohoe and other cross-border criminals such as ex-GAA star Daniel O’Callaghan. Police are asking for the public to be vigilant, and have recorded three thefts or attempted thefts in each of Co Antrim, Co Derry and Co Fermanagh, two in Co. Armagh and one in Co. Tyrone.

A cross-border criminal gang, with ties to suspects in the murder of Adrian Donohoe, has stolen hundreds of thousands of pounds from rural areas in Northern Ireland through cash machine attacks. The gang has been casing rural areas and has a list of potential targets for its thefts, which focus on cash machines. The police have urged the public to be vigilant following 12 such thefts this year alone. Criminal sources said that the gang has been carefully planning the thefts, keeping their focus on rural areas due to the delay in police response times and lack of police resources. The gang includes members with links to former GAA star Daniel O’Callaghan, who was jailed last year for his role in a cross-border gang that used stolen diggers to pull ATMs from walls.