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Thu 05 May 2004FG leader warns of radar-gun loopholeThe Fine Gael leader warned that thousands of traffic offences could be quashed if a legal loophole was not closed off by the introduction of emergency legislation.Mr Enda Kenny said that a speeding conviction had been overturned in the District Court in Cork on the basis that the defendant was entitled to a paper print-out of the speeding offences taken by the radar gun.