The trial of four men accused of having equipment for printing counterfeit currency, has collapsed at the Special Criminal Court over Gardaí withholding information about fingerprints from defence lawyers.
57-year-old Anthony Sloan from Ard na Mara, Dundalk, 43 year-old Andrew Poole with an address in Portlaoise, 41 year-old Liam Delaney, and 43 year-old Kevin Flanagan who are both from Borris-in-Ossory, have walked free from court.
The prosecution was brought after Emergency Response Unit Gardai raided a yard in Laois in 2010 and found the four accused men in a portacabin.
Officers uncovered a trapdoor hidden under a chest of drawers, which led to an underground bunker made out of two, forty-foot containers.