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GARDAÍ HAVE CARRIED out a number of arrests as part of a road enforcement clampdown on the May Bank Holiday weekend.
In Carlow last night, gardaí doing speed checks clocked a motorist travelling at 157 km/h on the M9 motorway. The driver failed roadside tests for cocaine, opiates and cannabis.
The car was seized as the driver was disqualified from driving.
Follow up searches of the car recovered 2,000 ecstasy tablets and 250 grams of cocaine. Gardaí have valued the seizure at approximately €40,000.
A man in his 20s was arrested before being released with a file to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
In Dublin, gardaí implemented 10 checkpoints across the capital yesterday evening as part of Operation Lockdown. The operation saw 595 motorists tested for alcohol and 15 for drugs.
Three arrests were made, one for drink driving and two for drugs.
Also in Dublin, gardaí stopped a motorcyclist who used a bus lane to undertake an unmarked garda vehicle while driving 100 km/h in a 80 km/h zone.
In Cork, gardaí conducted a checkpoint in Carrigaline last night and made two arrests on suspicion of drink driving. Three cars were also seized.
In Clare, a Lissycasey checkpoint on Thursday night saw the driver of a 45 tonne articulated truck testing positive for cocaine. The driver was arrested and taken to Ennis
Garda Station.
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Suspended sentence on the way.
@Windom Earle: no they didn’t rape anyone so they will definitely do time.
Folks there is a valuable lesson to be learnt here- if you are at work and doing a job of transporting €40,000 worth of drugs then it’ is highly advisable to keep under the speed limit.
@Inanimate Carbon Rod: the lad is obviously some kind and f genius in all fairness to him
@Inanimate Carbon Rod: the dealers will have to update their Health and safety booklet
@Inanimate Carbon Rod: are drug mules big fans of the Journal then?
@Inanimate Carbon Rod: it was coke, not speed.
Had a tragic upbringing and finding it difficult to get work. Really want to add to society but, but, but…. drugs help!
@Seán Dillon: Ah the poor fella. Give him a free house in a private estate beside people who’ve worked for the same thing. That’ll do the trick
@sean: most of these lads don’t need “free houses” they have more money than most of us will earn in a lifetime and own several houses in nice estates
@John Paul: But they probably rent those houses so still need a free house to live in.
@Manbackonboard: you live in cuckoo land if you believe that. The houses CAB have seized recently are mansions. These lads don’t pump over 500,000 euro into furnishing their houses to rent them out
Lost for words
@Diarmaid O’Riordáin: but you managed 3 in fairness to you
@Diarmaid O’Riordáin: try a dictionary there’s loads in there.
He’ll not be too popular with the other lads waiting for him on the stag weekend!
There should be alot more red light traffic cameras, the amount of cars breaking red lights is becoming a huge problem, you wouldn’t think that breaking a red light is a serious offense that carried 3 penalty points.
@Charles McGuire: cyclists certainly don’t!
Have him pick litter on the motorways and roads for 5 weekends. That will soften his cough.
@Irish big fellow: where I see it happen most frequently are at junctions where the lights only let a 6 cars through at a time if you don’t have someone half asleep at the front of the queue. I’m not defending running red lights but I do think we should make use of flashing Amber lights to tell people to be ready for the light to turn green like they do on most juntions in Northern Ireland
Nearly 600 alcohol tests but only 15 drug tests? Shows they are selective in who they test and for what probably hundreds of middle aged men and women gettin away with drug driving there id say because i bet they only drug test young drivers
@Karl Charlie: The drug tests take about 15 minutes to complete. That’s why they can’t do as many of those
Was he in a car or running?
The prisons are full so slap on the wrist for him.
@Noel Barnes: Hey, it’s not like he didn’t pay his TV license.
20 hours Community Work,that will teach him!!
What a mix! That person nearly deserves a medal ha ha. (But on a serious note dreadful person who could of killed several people)
Fear and louthing in las Carlow
cocaine, opiates and cannabis.cocaine???? any wonder he was flying it, he thought he was in a feken spacship
Where are the usual” have they nothing better for doing” commentators?
@Anthony: nowhere to be found when the actions of the traffic corpse doesn’t fit in with they’re only collecting revenue narrative
Acting a bit too casual ….
40 grand lol more like 10,no one takes the garda seriously
Ah well!! Post outcome of these case results
Off the road for life.screw him
@Seriously stunned: The lovely fellow yesterday who left someone with catastrophic brain injury had been banned from driving for 25 years and still thought it wise to drive, with his child in the backseat, under the influence of a cocktail of drugs. These beauties don’t tend to like doing what they’re told so not sure a lifetime ban will deter him, unfortunately.
@Seriously stunned:
I’d venture that his ‘management’ will not be too pleased …… he’ll probably end up disqualified from life rather than for life.
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