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TARMAC COD 'EM

Traveller Johnny Bottles in €2m-a-week con on our EU neighbours

IRELAND'S rogue traveller traders have sparked international fury with a €2 million-aweek dodgy tarmac racket.

A Sunday World investigation can reveal that crews from Rathkeale in Limerick have been touring Europe and fleecing householders out of cash for shoddy new driveways that only last a few days.

Our team tracked down one of the tarmac kings - Johnny 'Bottles' Sheridan - to Bergamo near Milan in northern Italy two weeks ago.

He had just charged an irate Italian €7,000 cash for tarmac work which began to disintegrate as soon as he fled with the money.

Up to 20 crews from Rathkeale are currently touring Europe trying to stay one step ahead of the law and their angry customers.

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