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THREE PEOPLE HAVE been arrested after €59,000 in cash and €40,000 worth of cannabis was seized during searches in Cork City and Athlone, Co Westmeath.
On Tuesday, a stop and search of a vehicle was carried out by gardaí under Section 23 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977/84.
During the course of the search, cash with an approximate value of €59,000 was recovered.
The driver of the vehicle, a man in his 20s, and the passenger, a teenage girl, were arrested and taken to Mayfield Garda Station where they were detained under the provisions of Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996.
The man was later released pending the submission of a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions. The female juvenile has also been released.
A follow-up search carried out in relation to this incident took place at a house in Athlone, Co Westmeath yesterday.
During the course of the search, 2kg of cannabis with a street value of €40,000, mobile phones, weighing scales, a GPS tracker and €910 in cash was recovered.
A male aged in his late teens was arrested and taken to Athlone Garda Station where he is currently detained.
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Credit where due well done although very difficult on families where there is no power. Thankfully we dont get too many storms like the few we had. Anyone see the news the UK still in bits far worse than us.
Still out in rear cross co tipp.fair play to esb networks though cant be easy working true such a backlog
Thank you for keeping this story in peoples mind.So many still have with no idea of when they will be switched back on.
Day 6 without power and im one of those isolated pockets ive been told. Probably be end of week before connection. Im going to go crazy!
A big well done to all the ESB crew, but surely they will consider putting electricity wires down under ground
Think about it….
There are 10s of thousands of KMs of local electricity cabling around the country.
How do you even begin to do that?
It would cost a biblical amount of money.
Or at least cutting back/removing of trees near power lines. A job for Coillte I would think.
There is no utility on Earth that has its rural distribution lines underground for one simple reason: cost. Undergrounding overhead lines would cost many multiples of the overhead cost and this would have to be passed on to the consumer. Our electricity bills are high enough as they are – no one wants to see them tripled, quadrupled or whatever. If it were a realistic option you’d think a place like Florida which suffers multiple major outages every year because of hurricanes would have done it years ago, but no: they have overhead lines as well. Nor would it necessarily result in the elimination of faults – they would still occur due to flooding, cable failures, dig-ins and the like. And it would take longer to repair or replace them. There would also be huge delays in connecting new properties to the network caused by the time involved in digging the trenches, getting permission from landowners and so forth. Nor of course would it be remotely realistic to initiate a programme of replacing the existing network of overhead lines with underground ones. All in all, on the face of it, it sounds like a reasonable proposition but when you examine it deeper it becomes a pipe-dream.
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