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COCAINE, HEROIN AND a gun have been seized in a house in Sallins, Kildare.
Around €3 million worth of heroin and cocaine were seized along with an assault rifle and ammunition.
The raid happened yesterday evening.
No arrests have been made and enquiries are ongoing.
Gardaí from the Drugs & Organised Crime Bureau supported by the Special Crime Task Force carried out the operation.
Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Frances Fitzgerald said, “The ongoing operation at Sallins underlines again the fact that An Garda Síochána are being relentless and resourceful in tackling the menace of organised crime gangs.
They are determined to hit those gangs where it hurts – to deprive them of their profits and to bring them to justice.
“No-one should underestimate the scale of the challenge which An Garda Síochána face, or the time it may take to put particular gangs out of business. But, however long it takes, those involved in such gangs will come to realise that no-one is above the law.”
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Some week. Excellent results
@Anders: Im sure the results are why less than what they make out with there over inflated street price.
Took how many murders before the Gsrda Commisioner decided to get the finger out and go after the kinihans & co. Same thing happened when Veroniva Guerin got shot. They went after Gilligan and the end result at the time was the biggest hash drought ever to happen in Ireland.
@Anders: you are clueless
prohibition causes more harm than the actual illegal drugs themselves
@Anders: lots of red thumbed guards here :))))
@EdmundOrlando: “Member the big hash drought in the nineties? I member!”
@EdmundOrlando: what’s your point? are we not repeating history?
what did einstein say about doing the same thing over & over and expecting different results?
the so called war on drugs has failed
the irony is that alcohol is the most harmful drug overall
the real question is who is to profit by keeping them illegal
@patient pNibbler: an example
If you can remember the 90′s. You weren’t there
Thats good news that heroin is a scourge.but I want cannabis legalized for all.
Im not a Garda fan,But credit where its due to them well done.
@Clever Jake: “All drugs are legal/decriminalized in Portugal”.
That statement is very misleading. What was decriminalized in Portugal is small amounts of Narcotics bing carried on your person exclusively for “Personal” use. What is still very “illegal”is the possession of those same narcotics for sale or supply to others.
Clever Jake. So you think your statement “All drugs are legal/decriminalised in Portugal” is not misleading!!! And precisely you didn’t distinguish between selling/supplying “Any” amount of narcotics being highly illegal and small amounts for personal use which while still technically illegal has been decriminalised (you will not be arrested for possession but your narcotics will be seized).
mick is on garda patrol again
We keep going around in circles with this topic .. it’s pointless because it’ll never be made legal . . Except cannabis ..hopefully.
@patient pNibbler: mick, you are part of the problem. not the solution
@Suzie Sunshine: here is suzie talking off the top of her head without a clue as to the real dangers of drugs.
alcohol is the most harmful to society & the user combined
that’s science
legalise & regulate
@patient pNibbler:
and educate!!!!
or you you not trust people to make an informed decision.
responsible people have no choice if they want to take a safer drug.
Clever Jake. The likelihood of narcotics legalisation in the next 50 years is as likely as an Alien Spaceship landing in St Stephens Green.
You are a bloody disgrace. Drugs are killers. Wise up
Clever Jake .. I read the links you prove red the last time aswell and again your argument is pointless because it is never going to happen ….
@Suzie Sunshine: wow!!!! what brilliant reasoning suzie — you are special
@Mick Jordan: alcohol is a narcotic and is legal
Patient. But Alcohol is not now nor ever has been Illegal in Ireland or any European state. And there in lays the diffrence.
@Mick Jordan: why were drugs made illegal mick? because of the dangers? LOL
@Mick Jordan: i’m just pointing out that your beloved alcohol is the most harmful narcotic
@Clever Jake:
the owners of this world don’t want an informed public capable of critical thinking
@patient pNibbler:
shell gave €35000 of alcohol to belmullet garda
http://www.broadsheet.ie/2013/08/11/shell-gave-e35000-of-alcohol-to-belmullet-gardai/
Someone is singing like a canary this week. Great to see.
@Fearghal: you haven’t a clue –> remember prohibition in america? a disaster
the war on drugs is loosing out to people on drugs
:))))
Lmao @ PP. Did you have a few lines of this stuff this morning.
@Fearghal: a thinker & a comic !!!!
@Fearghal: Yes, the recent efforts have been great, but I doubt such success could have achieved without a couple of tip offs to follow up. There’s a few locked up right now who might be sharing information, but I wonder if another gang sees the end in sight for Kinahans and are maneuvering to take over when the opportunity arises and helping to speed up the process with a few handy tip offs along the way? Whatever, one thing is certain, someone is providing some very good information..
Rodan. There will always be someone to take the place. When Alcohol Prohibition in the US ended did the Mafia go away? When Al Capone was locked up did someone else take his place. Illegal narcotics may be the best earner for these gangs but they have fingers in other pies too. Tobacco smuggling for a start, people smuggling, extortion, fraud, car theft, money laundering and when funds get low Armed Robbery, Kidnappings etc.
@Clever Jake: @Clever Jake: “Every citizen in Ireland is targeted by prohibitions corrupt terrorist laws”
The only people the Anti Terrorist laws affect are Terrorists!!!
“Why don’t you critique the corrupt members of the Gardai that openly sell heroin and they openly import millions of euros of heroin all over the country”.
So your proof of this statement is a statement made under Dail privilege by Ming Flanagan. If Mr Flanagan has actual proof of this let him produce it in public outside the Dail.
Have you proof of that statement and I don’t mean unsubstantiated claims by Ming Flanagan under Dail privilege.
@Mick Jordan: & mick
when is noirins brother in court?
So once again you quote Ming Flanagan who is hiding behind Dail privilege. Now you made the definitive statement that the Gardai were importing and selling illegal narcotics. So I will ask you for a second time to produce the proof of your claim.
Again nothing but hearsay. Where is the proof of your statement.
@Mick Jordan: you are not interested in proof mick ….. i posted scientific proof as to the real dangers of of drugs …….
There’s a mole in one the gangs. Has to be. I know the Guards do a stella job, but the raids they done the last few weeks. So this were the gangs start getting too para. Turning on each other within their own factions. Say this is going to be an interesting few months ahead.
there is an easy solution to this
end the war on drugs
aka the war on people
what hospital you in now, pp?
@Mahmoud O’Connell: soon you will wake up
Lol
@pp You are a prime example of why drugs shouldn’t be freely available to the general public
Stocking up for the €88 million Euro winners!
Its like love hate down in Dublin what a hole
Hahahaha
War on drugs is a racket. Cannabis – illegal yet big pharma already making various cannabis based drugs. You will have to buy them for inflated prices. Heroin – illegal yet any user can get free methadone, oxy, codeine, fentanyl, hydrocodone for which state is charged crazy money. Same with many other substances.
Who is getting rich of drugs? Follow the money and you will see who profit the most from war on drugs.
They seems to pick up drug lords quite regularly but nobody ever arrested some pharmaceutical executive so it is pretty clear to see who is waging this war on drugs and want to keep them illegal (with exception of perfectly legal drugs which are of the same sometimes even better quality).
Well done drugs are a curse
Jay sus right on me doorstep
They are not so much getting the finger out , they are just spending slot more taxpayers money to get it done r they not ??
The Kinahans wer out of controle now they are being put back in line
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