A former senior garda has told how robbers once held a shotgun to his head before they fired shots at him in a high-speed pursuit.
Inspector Tony Gallagher only escaped injury after the gunman missed his target as his car hit a speed bump. Mr Gallagher was working on the frontline in Ballyfermot in Dublin in 1993 when there was constant armed robberies and a stolen car epidemic.
One evening, he was escorting a cashin- transit van when a mob pounced. Mr Gallagher said: “All of a sudden, a stolen van came around the corner and four people jumped out in paramilitary gear. And they immediately opened fire on us and the person we were escorting.”
