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Wednesday, 28th May, 2025. Vol. 18, Issue 22 • 9A, Crowe Street, Dundalk, Co. Louth Tel: 042 932 0888 | Email: editorial@dundalkleader.com; advertising@dundalkleader.com
TAXI TERROR
Gardaí investigate shocking car-jacking incident By Paul Byrne GARDAÍ in Dundalk are appealing for information relating to the hijacking of a taxi in Dundalk on Monday evening. At around 10:40pm, a taxi driver from Fives Taxis on Francis St. was assisting a disabled passenger into his car just outside McGeoughs Bar at Roden Place. The driver helped the passenger, who had only one leg, into the car before putting his wheelchair in the boot. When he got back into the driver’s seat, the door was opened by a masked man brandishing what he believed to be a firearm, who ordered him out of the car. The suspect made off in
the taxi and stopped half a kilometre away, pulling the passenger out of the car and throwing him to the side of the road. No injuries were sustained. The suspect is described as being of average height, heavy set and he was wearing a black money hat. Gardaí are appealing to anyone who was in Dundalk town, Roden Place, Francis Street or Jocelyn Street areas between 10:00pm and 10;50pm and who may have witnessed this incident or with information on the whereabouts of a silver Skoda Superb taxi with a 131-KE registration plate, to come forward. Continued on Page 2
BOND OF BROTHERS!
Congratulations to Peter, Thomas, Stephen and Declan McCoy, four brothers from KIlcurry who climbed Croagh Patrick in County Mayo last Saturday.