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THREE PEOPLE HAVE been arrested after gardaí seized more than €720,000 worth of drugs in Dublin raids.
This happened in two separate incidents today in action taken by gardaí from Pearse District Drug Unit investigating the supply and sale of controlled drugs in Dublin’s south-inner city.
The first raid was on a property in Walkinstown, Dublin 12.
Two people were arrested, a 25-year-old man and a 18-year-old woman, who are currently being detained at Pearse Street Garda Station under the Criminal Justice Act 1984.
At the property cocaine with an estimated street value of around €70,000 was discovered.
During a search of a second property, also located in Walkinstown, gardaí found cocaine with a street value of €430,000, Zopiclone tablets (medication that is used to treat insomnia) with a street value of €220,000 and ecstasy tablets with a street value of €5,000.
A 47-year-old man was arrested at the scene and taken to Irishtown Garda Station where he is being detailed under the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996.
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Another massive failing of Enda’s reign… The people voted to keep the Seanad so Enda threw all the toys out of the pram and did nothing to reform it.
The people voted to keep the Seanad to spite Enda.
Yeah… That’s why he’s been such a baby about it,
that is reverse psychology at its best !!!
Enda never promised reform – the people who wanted to retain it did. Was it 1979 the referendum was passed to expand it to a greater electorate?
I know I did.
I voted for reform, Enda had absolutely nothing to do with my decision.
I believe we need two Houses as a “check and balance” but I want to see voting opened to more people and reduce then number of party appointments.
And I suspect if you asked most who voted to retain they’d have the same reasons.
How does the Seanad provide a “check and balance”? The Seanad has no powers to veto legislation and, based on Taoiseach’s nominees, will always have a government majority?
It doesn’t as it stands now.. That’s why it needs reform. Just getting rid of it would give whatever government was sitting in the Dail too much power.
The Seanad needs to be strengthened and democratised, not abolished, in my opinion.
No, it was actually Chuck Norris. He got them over a decade before Twitter was invented
Yera I got a billion re twitters the other day.
Norris is a total slieveen
The Seanad. Jobs for the boys. All around back scratching, brown nosing, secret handshakes. Get rid of it.
We didn’t want to get rid of it. We had a vote, remember?
Would love to see the seanad voluntarily filled..with travel expenses limited to 10k per annum…separate those who want to serve..from those who want to take..how many former TDs would be lining up?
See, I have a problem with making politics only possible for those that are independently wealthy.
I don’t want only rich people in politics.
There is a balance to be found where a position in politics is possible irrespective of your financial ability.
In a perfect world, all (qualified) citizens should be “drafted” to do, say 2 years in politics. Force us all to participate in the running of our society.
Sick of the gobshutes on this caraval of its mee it’s mee
It’s me.
How,did we make such a big mistake? Totally un democratic.
Really, you actually fact-checked Sabina Brennan’s qualifications?
David Norris told personally before that he’s almost completely IT illiterate and doesnt wrote his own Tweets
“joint Oireachtas committee members also get bonuses of between €792 and €5,989. ” http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/tdssenators/salariesallowances/salaries/
Committee Chair person do not committee members
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