http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2006/0911/1156791558637.html
"A major cross-Border investigation between Irish and British authorities has uncovered widespread social welfare fraud by asylum seekers and other foreign nationals may have cost the State tens of millions of euro, The Irish Times has learned. Conor Lally reports. Sources close to the investigation, called Operation Gull, said they have been 'staggered' by the level and nature of abuses being detected. Coordinated swoops on ports and airports in the Republic and Northern Ireland have revealed significant numbers of foreign nationals taking advantage of the common travel area between the Republic and the UK in a bid to defraud the Irish Exchequer." [Immigration - Economic]
