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GARDAÍ HAVE SEIZED drugs worth €90,000 in Kildare, after searches of 11 houses this weekend.
Gardaí and the Taxi Regulator also carried out 22 checkpoints across Kildare from Friday morning to this morning, resulting in a number of road traffic offences being disclosed.
As part of Operation Thor, gardaí in Kildare and the Regional Support Unit also carried out house searches from 7am last Friday to 4am this morning.
“This operation consisted of 11 searches of private residences and a number of arrests,” gardaí said in a statement.
Over €90,000 of cannabis herb was seized.
Files will now be prepared for the information of the Director of Public Prosecutions in relation to the arrests, they added.
Two persons were also arrested and detained on suspicion of carrying out burglaries.
They have since been released without charge and a file will now be submitted to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
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Generic homeless crisis comment
@Jack Goff: generic response to generic comment :-)
@Jack Goff: I’m a squeezed middle taxpayer and I approve for my tax to go towards this. There are almost 4 million non homeless people in this country, would be nice to see the money go towards them for once.
@Peter Cavey: Non homeless? i’ve heard it all now.
@Peter Cavey: keep on fiddling Nero,Rome is in safe hands
@Peter Cavey: dead right lad
Cheaper than the Pope’s visit and at least this crowd will spend money (and turn up)
@David A Roberts:
Cheaper than the Queen of England’s visit aswell, and we’ll actually be allowed onto our streets.
Fanzones are great craic. I was at the euros in France in 16 and went to the fanzone at the Eiffel Tower. It was brilliant
@Charlie: C minus
@Charlie: goodman Charlie. Glass half full
hopefully Ireland will qualify, or this will be a damp squib.
@Gulliver Foyle: No chance!
@Gulliver Foyle: you mean damp squid!
@Paul O’b: Nope the phrase is damp squib but some people erroneously say damp squid, I mean what other way does a squid come, come on.
@Diarmuid Hunt: you’ve out this up on a pedal stool…
@Pilib: Haha
@Diarmuid Hunt: deep fried
@oriainarama: And when you bite into your deep fried squid is it bone dry on the inside? You might have your calamari frying a bit long there.
What about what about what about, ah feck em where’s my plastic hammer.
COYBIG.
The drinks industry will be the big winners, let them pay !
@Martin Sinnott: they will be through taxes a long with hotels, restaurants, transportation and so on
Are they having a laugh 3 mill might take one or two off the streets
@Denise Prendergast: the revenue generated from tourism and the vat and excise taxes may far offset the 3m cost and ultimately take homeless off the streets.. just a possibility
@David A Roberts: Denise doesn’t think that way.
And I suppose the tax payer should just pay for all these lazy B*st*rds. Popping them out left right and centre…
@Denise Prendergast:
3 thousand euro would take several off the streets if they actually wanted to leave the streets.
But then fraudsters pretending to care about them wouldn’t be able to feel gods about themselves and blame the gubberment.
@David A Roberts: just as the South Africans “took the homeless off the streets” for the 2010 World Cup!!!!!When it was over the homeless returned. I live in Cape Town and I see plenty sleeping on the streets and hundreds begging at traffic intersections trying to get the 12 rand which would get them a place in a homeless shelter for the night. The Irish Government will only get the homeless off the streets if their presence interferes with the “image” the authorities want to project. Of course lots of hotel rooms will be needed for supporters. The homeless will be kept out of sight and “out of mind”.
They really don’t have there priorities right this country, we are being taxed to the hilt the harder we work the more we pay and now they want to spend 3 million on a piss up I really don’t get it god help the children of the future.
@Declan Judge: you have to spend money to make money, you should have been listening to your business teacher when you were in school.
@Declan Judge: hint TAXES
As per usual; the populists have arrived to say that nothing should ever be spent on anything until no one is homeless.
@Keithphoto: What’s wrong with that nobody should be homeless except those who wish to stay on the streets we can live without the big screens
My god the gap widens I am sure if you did a survey on whether people would prefer to see that money spent going towards building a few houses rather then see a football game on a large screen the results would be interesting.
@Donal Carey: that’s the problem … if a few people took responsibility for their own actions and didn’t widen their gap 8 times by the age of 28, maybe the crisis may be lessened ….
@Donal Carey: you do realise it’s possible to spend money on more than one thing? This is an investment. It’ll make a lot more than it costs.
@Donal Carey: Even if the DCC didn’t fund these fan zones your off your head if you think they’d build houses instead.
@The Guru: That’s the problem they are spending absolutely no money in housing .
Can they organise a big wagon that plays music to bring these people to and from zones?
Ballgames…
Par for the course; the populist nutters have arrived to say that nothing should ever be spent on anything until no one is homeless.
Par for the course; the populists have arrived to say that nothing should ever be spent on anything until no one is homeless.
Why are UEFA not paying for this?
3 million, hilarious, we will get a few posters and quite a few brown envelopes for that.
@David Byrne: If Uefa paid for it then any revenue we maid would have to be given to them, as people have said before. You have to spend money to make money, we will make a profit on this if you take in money made by pubs, hotels, buses and the likes of small local shops.
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