NORTHERN IRELAND
April 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE HIJACKING of a Gallaher lorry with Pounds 1 million of cigarettes on the Northern Ireland-Ireland border has prompted the company to ferry tobacco from its Ballymena plant to Dublin, via Scotland and Liverpool, Ulster Unionist MP David Burnside has claimed. Although the company has not confirmed this switch, it has talked with Northern Ireland police over security. The raid also prompted Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley to request military help for border police patrols.
THE HIJACKING of a Gallaher lorry with Pounds 1 million of cigarettes on the Northern Ireland-Ireland border has prompted the company to ferry tobacco from its Ballymena plant to Dublin, via Scotland and Liverpool, Ulster Unionist MP David Burnside has claimed. Although the company has not confirmed this switch, it has talked with Northern Ireland police over security. The raid also prompted Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley to request military help for border police patrols.
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