Bank robbery
In 2014, the former head of the Assets Recovery Agency commented that he believed the IRA were still struggling to launder some of the £26 million taken in the heist owing to the size of the haul. Former IRA bank robber Ricky O’Rawe published a work of fiction in 2018 entitled "Northern Heist" about a Belfast bank robbery which bore strong resemblances to the Northern Bank robbery. As of 2018, the heist remained one of the largest in the history of both the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, and nobody had been held directly responsible.