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between June 2007 and No- vember 2008.
Police property applications in re- lation to them were made before En- nis District Court on Friday, where Judge Joseph Mangan ordered that the cars be surrendered to the Min- ister for Justice, who would decide how to dispose of them.
Sergeant Paul Slattery told the court that during one of the incidents, the occupants of the car fled the scene, leaving the vehicle behind.
“The car was hot-wired at the time,” he said.
He said he was applying to have the vehicle destroyed.
Another of the cars was seized by gardai last August, as part of an in- vestigation into a burglary, while an- other car came into the possession of the gardai in connection with a crimi- nal damage incident.
That car had been extensively dam- aged, said the garda.
The fourth car had been abandoned in January 2008 and was seized by garda