Gardai have arrested three men and recovered the van believed to have been used in the theft of a cash machine containing over £80,000 from a shop in Newtownbutler.

A mechanical digger was used to smash the Automatic Teller Machine from the wall of Declan McCabe”s SuperValu store on the Clones Road in the early hours of Saturday morning. The PSNI has been heavily criticised for taking 12 hours to get to the scene of the crime.

They blame the threat from dissident republican terrorists in the area for the delay. Read more here.

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By Rodney Edwards and Niall McCracken for fermanagh.tv

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