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Bags of heroin and the cash seized by gardaí Garda Press Office

Teenager charged after cash and heroin worth over €140k seized in Ballymun raid

One man has been arrested.

Updated 3.18pm

GARDAÍ HAVE SEIZED heroin with a street value of €140,000 after the search of a house in Ballymun yesterday.

Members of the Ballymun District Drugs unit carried out the search which also yielded €2,000 in cash.

An 18-year-old man was arrested after the raid and has subsequently been charged. He is due to appear in court this afternoon.

Gardaí say that the search was carried out as part of an ongoing operation targeting drug dealing in the area which has yielded seizures of heroin, crack cocaine and cannabis herb.

Superintendent Finbarr Murphy of Ballymun Garda Station says the operation will continue.

“Gardai in Ballymun, with the assistance of community leaders and the people of Ballymun, will continue to clamp down on those involved in selling drugs and anti-social behaviour.”

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    Mute Pauliebhoy
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 10:03 AM

    I’m waiting for Irish people to be tagged as ghosts

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    Mute Bearsass Hairyarse
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 10:04 AM

    Funniest headline I’ve read in ages!

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    Mute Liam Brophy
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 9:58 AM

    Google need to stop monkeying around.

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    Mute Dave Murray
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 10:03 AM

    The algorrillm needs some fine tuning.

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    Mute Markonline
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 10:26 AM

    Is it caus they black?

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    Mute Reuben Gray
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 10:57 AM

    It’s a bit like when Nikon brought out their blink detection software years ago. It asks “did someone blink?” I noticed it myself on my L100 and it worked fine. The problem arose when pictures of Asians were mistaken as someone blinking, even though they were not.
    Since Nikon is an Asian company, one wonders what sort of quality control they had on that one.

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    Mute Mick Bacon
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 10:29 AM

    What kind of ape wrote that program.

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    Mute KMac
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 11:06 AM

    That’s fierce funny altogether.
    Light relief from the Greece crisis.

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    Mute Captain kirk
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 11:07 AM

    Can’t foresee a Terminator situation any time soon

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    Mute Lester Jeffcoat
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 11:26 AM

    I’ll be black.

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    Mute Scarr
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 10:29 AM

    For anyone thinking this is a person in google tagging black people as gorillas: http://rocknrollnerd.github.io/ml/2015/05/27/leopard-sofa.html

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    Mute Jimmy Jim-Jim
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 12:25 PM

    Check your algorithmic privilege.

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    Mute Joanna
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 10:27 AM

    Mortifying.

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    Mute gary power
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 10:03 AM

    ilikegrasss

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    Mute PhotographybyMeAB
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 9:58 AM

    Seems like they have a racist/s in Google

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    Mute Fergal Kelly
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 10:05 AM

    I don’t think computers can be racist. They’re aren’t that advanced in AI yet.

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    Mute Paul Roche
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 10:13 AM

    Nor are they so advanced in recruitment…

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    Mute Scarr
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 10:28 AM

    This is an AI issue, not a human issue.

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    Mute Paul Roche
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 10:33 AM

    Perhaps if it wasn’t a human issue it wouldn’t have been an AI issue.
    http://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2014/05/29/2-of-google-employees-are-black-and-just-30-are-women/

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    Mute Scarr
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 10:51 AM
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    Mute David G
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 10:59 AM

    So it’s not the fault of the person who programed the AI(long way off real AI) who is at fault?

    Black people don’t look anything like Gorillas . If it can tell the difference between a Leopard and a Jaguar then it should be able to tel the difference between a person and an Ape.

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    Mute Fozz
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 11:17 AM

    Don’t see how labeling a black person as a Gorilla is racist..sure aren’t we all as equally related to the gorilla?
    After that handsome gorilla the other day I;d say many of us would take kindly to being more gorilla-like :)

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    Mute Karol Doran
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 1:04 PM

    Well said Fozz. Sure Gareth Bale is the absolute spit of a gorilla. He gets fierce abuse for it. And I have yet to hear anyone call it a racist insult.

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    Mute Eamon Mac Gowan
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 7:52 PM

    @Paul Roche
    Maybe white and Asian males are just better at this kind of work.

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    Mute Paul Roche
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 10:25 PM

    Do you think a negroe programmer would have missed this?

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    Mute Eamon Mac Gowan
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 10:34 PM

    You’re supposed to say “black”.

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    Mute Paul Roche
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 10:52 PM

    Perhaps, but I intended to write “negro”, the “e” hung around after an unsuccessful edit of an original plural… Maybe it should look for job on Google…

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    Mute Pádraig Staunton
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 8:02 PM

    Looks nifty, can I download from the ApeStore?

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    Mute Nell Aguilera
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 12:50 PM

    There is a simple solution to that issue. It would involve swapping two words. Although I think gorillas would not like to be named humans. Just imagine what animal rights activists would say.

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    Mute Paul Roche
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 10:12 AM

    Think how clever you have to be to screw up on this level.

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    Mute J. Dunn
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 2:27 PM

    How do you test every possible scenario for photograph classification? I’ve been fooled by more than one elbow, myself.

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    Mute Kate Reddin
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 11:14 AM

    Facial recognition insists in asian

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    Mute J. Dunn
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 11:19 AM

    Well then, I think it’s time for me to get a software update too. I honestly had to do a double take.

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    Mute Dave Meagher
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    Jul 2nd 2015, 11:57 PM

    All aboard the lets get offended at anything band wagon.

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    Jul 2nd 2015, 10:04 AM

    ‘Get machetes to think more like the way people do’ (quote) . Keep digging !

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