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Tue 01 Jan 2007Conroy calls crisis talks after €1.3m kidnap raidGarda Commissioner Noel Conroy has called crisis talks with the State's biggest security companies following the robbery yesterday of €1.3 million from a cash-in-transit van in Carlow.A Securicor employee and his wife, both in their 60s, were tied up, gagged and held at separate locations in Dublin overnight by the armed gang.