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TWO WOMEN IN their twenties appeared in court today charged with evading duty on cigarettes.
Two female Lithuanian nationals appeared before Judge Denis McLouglin today following the seizure of 35,400 cigarettes by officers from Revenue’s Customs Services at Dublin Airport last week.
They each received a five month custodial sentence.
The two women were aged 25 and 26 and were both sentenced to five months in prison for evasion and attempted evasion of duty in respect of the “NZ Gold” and “Kent” cigarettes. The women’s sentence was backdated to 8 October 2013.
The cigarettes had a retail value of €16,890 and a potential loss to the Exchequer of €14,524.
Revenue said that if any businesses or members of the public have any information regarding the smuggling or sale of illegal cigarettes, they can contact them in confidence on (free phone) 1800 295 295.
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Why is there no description given of the attacker? Surely that would help a lot more than this little soiree.
I’m sure potential attackers will have a word with themselves now..
So the community should do nothing? This march shows that people will be looking out and making sure any attacker knows that they should be looking over their shoulder. Proper community spirit. Well done.
@Deborah Behan: Community patrols work a lot better than soirees that are just an exercise for some people to post pictures of themselves on social media.
But that’s a lot more hard work and Corrie is on most nights.
the only thing to stop attackers is to play by their rules. ambush them when they least expect it
@Deborah Behan: Where does @Daffy the Bear say anything along the lines of “The Community should do nothing” If you think a march is the extent of what a community can do, you are an idiot. Here in Limerick we had a suicide epidemic at the bridges crossing the Shannon, “The community” organised and now have constant patrols of groups of concerned citizens walking the bridges at night to help prevent such horrible things from happening. Maybe the Shankhill community would be better served actually patrolling the areas at night if they are truly concerned, rather than having a large virtue signal collective announce something to everyone that they already know, sexual attacks are bad and should not be done “Nuh duh”. The attackers know what they are doing is wrong and I am pretty certain they are looking over their shoulder already. What a silly sentiment you make here as to the productivness of the protest. Protest is better served for means where it can actually incite change, protesting against criminals being criminals or sex attackers being sex attackers is almost as illogical as your response to @Daffy the Bear’s smarmy not entirely unfunny remark.
I guess it takes a sex attack for liberals to care about stopping violent criminals.
Unless it’s migrants doing the raping then best to sweep it under a rug
I guess it would take a lot of men sexually attacked for you to feel anything.
@john smith.. Yeah it’s only migrants that are protected…. it’s not like those of a certain religion have been protected and continue to be protected….
So when it turns out to be boring white catholic guys will you come back on and apologise? I guess not – you’re determined to find any reason to satisfy your need to hate.
@Deborah Behan: Said the homicide fanatic, time for you to feel ‘anything’.
Is there any connection between the attacks?
What do you think Sherlock?
Would you prefer to believe that there are lots of attackers in this community?
Im guessing the attacker is probably in the march too
Do nothing and you’re told you should do “something”. Do “something” and you get told won’t do anything. Can’t win!! Do I personally think this will change anything?! Probably not, however they are out there doing SOMETHING! Good on them I say! It’s very easy to sit here, give out about whatever the given topic is but it’s more useful to get up and DO something positive to help one’s self and others! And now I will get back down off my soap box…. As you were….
@Maggsjacob:
Prefer to put my trust in the gardai rather than the feminists.
Maggsjacob, I agree with you completely. There may be lots of other things to march about and nothing is stopping people from organising those marches.
As for using feminist as a derogatory term (Emmet O’Keefe), first and for all, the people who organised this may not actually appreciate being labelled by you, just because they care about other womens’ safety. Secondly, did you consider that there are men who are also concerned for the women in their lives and that some of these men were also taking part in the march? If there was a march about something related to mens’ rights and where men are treated unfairly by society – for instance in relation to fathers’ rights – would I take part in that march? D**n right I would! I have seen first hand the effects of this.
Lastly, please stop assuming that any self confessed feminist with an opinion you don’t agree with is speaking for every feminist. Newsflash – women, just like men, are not a homogeneous mass, we are individuals capable of having our own opinions. One woman does not act and speak for all women they speak for themselves, just like one man does not act or speak on behalf of other men, only for himself
Hear hear!! Well said Helen!! I get so bored hearing people whinge and complain. Get up off your backside and at least give it a try!! You might be one, but one can grow to two and so on….. But when people just want to whinge and complain and give out about those who ARE trying, well, it puts me up on a soap box!!!
150 people?
There was probably double that number of burglars on the streets of Dublin last night.
Oh go away
At least the French protest for a reason. Lunacy as this will achieve nothing.
Burns a few calories anyway.
Because it only matters when a man is sexually attacked? WTF? Do you want them to burn cars and businesses? Stay in your armchair.
Take that sex attackers,we held a walk….
Hopefully they keep marching in these numbers or get the required policing resources in place. That area has always been rough as hell and its only a matter of time before its back to being a no-mans land. I remember a story in my youth of a community officer who was tied up and had his clothes stripped.
Have you an alibi?
Shankill rough as hell? Really? Maybe one or two areas are rough the rest is very nice. You dont know what your talking about.
I have no idea what you’re talking about and clearly you don’t have any idea either. Fantastic community spirit and winners of the DunLaoghraie-Rathdown Co. Council Tidy Towns award 2016.
Why is there no description of said attacker/attackers?….
It use to be a nice area before the Garda stations were closed down.
The Garda station in Shankill is open for business as usual and they do an excellent job in the community
Well done to all involved, we have a bit of a Monster in the Shankill area who’s preying on women. A sex pervert skiving on women? Well done to all you people who turned out for this walk & highlighting this depraved little creep who’s annoying & scaring the people in the surrounding area of Shankill.
Let’s hope he’ll have enough sense to quit while he’s ahead or better still caught by the Garda on one of his outings. No woman should have to feel unsafe in the area that they live in, especially when there’s a sex pervert stalking women!
How many women have been attacked in that area ?
Four or five, reported, that is.
One attack at Bayview recently.
2-3 attacks were reported about 18 months ago but these are not considered to be related to the recent attack
Some right tw#ts posting on this thread. Marches work. It enhances community spirit and brings attention to the cause. How many of the people who are giving out about this March are still paying water charges? People power.
jeez an auld description would help at this stage, create awareness for people in fear ya know? very odd. what happened to photofits. bizarre. help people for crying out loud.
Killiney should have a march too, oh wait…
@Ken O’Neill: Kiliney
Shankill is a lovely area with nice people, I wouldn’t hear a bad word said about it. A sting operation needs to be put in place, with an under cover scantily clad ban garda walking ostensibly alone and lost, looking at google maps on her phone. Its an outrage that people have to take to the streets to protest for the safety of our women in this day and age – its more like Dickensian London
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