DUBLIN RAIDS

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32450, 10 November 1970, Page 19

DUBLIN RAIDS

Arms seized by police (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) DUBLIN, Nov. 9. Twenty-three men, some of them believed by the police to be from Northern Ireland, were detained for questioning yesterday after raids on two isolated farmhouses near Dublin. And in Belfast two employees of the Irish Republic’s Government-owned radio, Telefis Eireann, were detained by British troops after a canister of riot gas was found in a car. Tile Belfast police later announced that one of them had been charged with possessing an offensive weapon. Eight men were arrested during an overnight raid by Dublin police on a farmhouse near Dublin Airport which yielded several rifles and rounds of ammunition. fa another raid on a farmhouse just south of the border with Northern Ireland, more rifles and ammunition were seized. Officers from the Dublin Special Branch surrounded the house, near Louth, 12 miles south of the border, after dusk, and 15 men were detained. A man was shot and wounded in Belfast early today when four masked men, armed with revolvers, raided a club in the city centre. Members of the staff and their wives, who were about to leave the premises, were ordered to line up against the wall or lie on the floor. One of the raiders opened fire and a member of the staff was hit in the groin. No-one else was hurt, and the gunmen ran from the building, leaving behind the week-end takjngs the police believe they were after.