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A FORMER CHEF who approached a plainclothes garda and tried to sell him €2,000 worth of heroin has been given 240 hours of community service.
Darren Trimble (35) of Nicholas Street, Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of heroin for sale or supply at Heuston Station on 4 April 2013.
On 28 March 2013, Garda David Naughton was on plain clothes duty at Fatima Luas Stop when he spotted two people acting suspiciously beside an electricity supply unit.
As the garda walked towards the pair, Trimble stopped him and started chatting. Soon after Trimble asked him if he was looking to score heroin, saying he could get him any amount he wanted.
Trimble then walked with Garda Naughton towards Ruben Street and arranged to meet days later at Heuston Station.
At the train station Garda Naughton met with Trimble who took the drugs, which were later valued at over €3,000, from his tracksuit bottoms. Trimble admitted that the heroin was his and he was trying to sell it but did not plead guilty until the value was revised downwards to €2,083.
Defence counsel, Luigi Rea BL, said that Trimble was a qualified chef with two daughters but had lost his career when he began using heroin in his mid twenties.
Mr Rea said Trimble was well liked in the area he grew up and had attended Greendale Community School where he was taught by author Roddy Doyle. Mr Rea handed in a drug test which showed Trimble is clean of opiates and told the court that whatever Trimble’s own intentions, his long term partner was adamant that he would not use heroin again.
Judge Desmond Hogan sentenced Trimble to 240 hours community service in lieu of a two year prison sentence. Judge Hogan said he regarded Trimble as the ‘lowest rung of the ladder’ when it came to such offences. He also said that while the valuation was revised by an analyst, it was still a significant amount of drugs.
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What is a theoretical physicist specialising in string theory to do?
Poor Sheldon Cooper misses out again. Bazinga!
Well done to Englert and Higgs. Thanks to one of my daughters I have an interest in all of this. (Still don’t really understand it mind you)
You see Higgs isn’t just a theoretical physicist. He worked in the field.
Paarrr-tay at Higgs gaff!
Sheldon must be gutted!
I was just going to say that lol poor Sheldon
And yet I’m still only getting 3mb broadband
Its 2mb faster then mine
Deadly! Seeing Higg at the announcement in CERN last year that they had found the God particle almost 50 years after he made the proposal was a great moment.
Higgs, Higgs,….Hurrah! :I
Well done great discovery. Delighted for them.
Great to see both of them live long enough to see their theory proven, and they fully deserve the Nobel prize.
Good job they did love long enough, because they don’t award them posthumously. Plenty of geniuses missed out on a Nobel prize by dying too soon.
*live
I dont know what a tracker morgage is ?
Congratulations to Peter Higgs.
But what if the speed of light varies through
time and space? What if natural constants aren’t
that constant?
That would maybe indicate that consciousness has
existed since the beginning of the universe, and
that the universe is much larger than we
imagine.
Interested? Then read my philosophical
multiverse theory.
Proven? more holes then a tea bag if you ask me. The Standard Model is as much a religious belief as Christianity is.
I wonder why it took 50 years to confirm their theory?
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