Advertisement

We need your help now

Support from readers like you keeps The Journal open.

You are visiting us because we have something you value. Independent, unbiased news that tells the truth. Advertising revenue goes some way to support our mission, but this year it has not been enough.

If you've seen value in our reporting, please contribute what you can, so we can continue to produce accurate and meaningful journalism. For everyone who needs it.

Revenue

Three arrests as 72,000 ecstasy pills are seized in Dublin

The tablets had an estimated street value of €720,000.

TWO MEN AND a woman, all aged in their 40s, have been arrested following the discovery of 72,000 ecstasy pills in Dublin.

They are currently being detained at Store Street and Kevin Street Garda Stations.

Officers from Revenue’s Customs Service and the Garda Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau seized the tablets yesterday as part of an intelligence-led operation into suspected drug traffickers.

The pills were confiscated during searches at north and south inner city locations.

They had an estimated street value of €720,000.

Read: A whopping €90m-worth of drugs was destroyed in Ireland last year >

Read: Thousands of ‘unreliable or dangerous’ erectile dysfunction pills seized in early June >

Readers like you are keeping these stories free for everyone...
A mix of advertising and supporting contributions helps keep paywalls away from valuable information like this article. Over 5,000 readers like you have already stepped up and support us with a monthly payment or a once-off donation.

Close
39 Comments
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Shaun Gallagher
    Favourite Shaun Gallagher
    Report
    Jul 25th 2022, 10:54 AM

    Here we go again. Will soon have no arm left

    130
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Tommy Roche
    Favourite Tommy Roche
    Report
    Jul 25th 2022, 11:36 AM

    @Shaun Gallagher: Wouldn’t sweat it, unless you feel you’re part of an at risk group ?

    63
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Eoin Clancy
    Favourite Eoin Clancy
    Report
    Jul 25th 2022, 1:12 PM

    16,000 people in the whole wide world have a rash and it’s a health emergency. You couldn’t make it up.

    95
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Niamh Hayes
    Favourite Niamh Hayes
    Report
    Jul 25th 2022, 1:24 PM

    @Eoin Clancy: kids get really sick from it,not too big of a deal for adults

    12
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Ciarán O' Donoghue
    Favourite Ciarán O' Donoghue
    Report
    Jul 25th 2022, 3:18 PM

    @Niamh Hayes: Kids shouldn’t be getting monkeypox. Also, have they not changed the name of it yet?

    23
    See 6 more replies ▾
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Diarmuid Hunt
    Favourite Diarmuid Hunt
    Report
    Jul 25th 2022, 4:11 PM

    @Ciarán O’ Donoghue: Why would the name change?

    2
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Fiona Fitzgerald
    Favourite Fiona Fitzgerald
    Report
    Jul 25th 2022, 5:08 PM

    @Eoin Clancy: While they’re out sick, presumably there’s a shortage of healthy staff, in fairness.

    1
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Gavin Conran
    Favourite Gavin Conran
    Report
    Jul 25th 2022, 5:25 PM

    @Eoin Clancy: 16,000 becomes 32,000 quite quickly, thus addressing early is key. How is it a self certified journal.ie epidemiologist such as yourself missed that?

    5
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Eoin Clancy
    Favourite Eoin Clancy
    Report
    Jul 25th 2022, 7:07 PM

    @Gavin Conran: I didn’t know you needed a phd in epidemiology to make a comment. Making everyone scared doesn’t need a phd qualification does it? Did you specialise in fear at university?

    17
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Eoin Clancy
    Favourite Eoin Clancy
    Report
    Jul 25th 2022, 7:08 PM

    @Fiona Fitzgerald: Huh?

    5
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Eoin Clancy
    Favourite Eoin Clancy
    Report
    Jul 25th 2022, 7:17 PM

    @Gavin Conran: just saw you’re fake Facebook account. Bot

    4
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Margaret Deacon
    Favourite Margaret Deacon
    Report
    Jul 25th 2022, 11:43 AM

    How long does vaccine last, think I was given as a child

    15
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Will
    Favourite Will
    Report
    Jul 25th 2022, 12:00 PM

    @Margaret Deacon: “How long does vaccine last”.

    Googled : ‘Smallpox vaccination provides full immunity for 3 to 5 years and decreasing immunity thereafter.’
    As opposed to the Covid ‘vaccine’ which may reduce your chances of serious illness

    14
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute David Jordan
    Favourite David Jordan
    Report
    Jul 25th 2022, 12:02 PM

    @Margaret Deacon: Immunity may last a lifetime, these researchers found that an 88-year-old was likely still immune due to the vaccine he received as a child. Though other info online says the vaccine provides maximum immunity for 3 – 5 years, and after then immunity starts to decline.

    Taub, D.D., Ershler, W.B., Janowski, M., Artz, A., Key, M.L., McKelvey, J., Muller, D., Moss, B., Ferrucci, L., Duffey, P.L. and Longo, D.L., 2008. Immunity from smallpox vaccine persists for decades: a longitudinal study. The American journal of medicine, 121(12), pp.1058-1064.

    36
    See 2 more replies ▾
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute SquintEastwood
    Favourite SquintEastwood
    Report
    Jul 25th 2022, 12:13 PM

    @David Jordan: what science have we to follow this time ?
    which of those studies is going to be called misinformation and anyone you read it a antivax nutter

    38
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Paul Clancy
    Favourite Paul Clancy
    Report
    Jul 25th 2022, 12:35 PM

    @David Jordan: I assume that’s vaccination for smallpox. From what I’ve read on some UK information sites as this is a smallpox vaccine that also works for MP it may not provide full immunity but rather lessens the symptoms.

    6
Submit a report
Please help us understand how this comment violates our community guidelines.
Thank you for the feedback
Your feedback has been sent to our team for review.
JournalTv
News in 60 seconds