Navan men charged with stealing airport bus

Two Navan men have been charged with vehicle theft after a minibus stolen from outside Dublin Airport with three passengers on it was then involved in a cross border chase involving gardai and the PSNI.

The stolen minibus was eventually crashed in Monaghan before a car was stolen and chased by gardai.

Stephen McDonagh (25) and John McDonagh (26), of The Steeples, Navan, appeared before Judge Denis McLoughlin at Cavan District Court on Thursday on multiple charges arising from the airport incident and other incidents allegedly committed in recent weeks in counties Monaghan and Meath.

Detective Garda Ciaran Marks from Carrickmacross garda station said John McDonagh made no reply when charged with two counts of unauthorised taking of vehicles in Dublin and Monaghan on 8th January as well as two counts of burglary, three of theft, an unauthorised taking of a vehicle and four road traffic offences in recent weeks in counties Meath and Monaghan.

Judge McLoughlin denied John McDonagh bail, and both men were remanded in custody to appear again at Cloverhill District Court on 16th January.