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TWO WOMEN AND a man who were arrested yesterday in connection with a cocaine and cash seizure have been released without charge.
As part of Operation Tara, gardaí yesterday seized approximately €72,500 worth of cocaine and €10,265 in cash, following a search operation in Galway.
Gardaí attached to the Galway Divisional Drugs Unit searched a house in the Headford Road area of Galway city. During the course of this search €9,500 cocaine and €10,265 cash was seized.
Gardaí arrested a woman in her 30s at the scene.
A second search was conducted at a residence in Menlo, Galway, where cocaine worth €63,000 was recovered. A man and a woman, both in their 20s, were arrested in relation to this seizure.
Gardaí said files are now being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions and investigations are ongoing.
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I always read the label for country of origin but now it appears I’ve been wasting my time.
How can I support Irish jobs in the Irish agri-sector if I can’t trust the label or butcher.
It should be a very serious offence to mislabel or misrepresent the origin of a food product and they should include fines and/or prison for those caught.
Do butchers have labels ?
Indeed they do…they stick them on the meat.
Irish meat is the best in the world, and it is worth ensuring that meat is Irish. Currently restaurants and butchers are guilty of not always providing Irish pork and poultry. Very ofter it is the supermarkets who are taking a lead here. Bring on the changes in April I’d say.
I couldn’t give a bollix if it was Irish or not. Meat is meat
Painfully stupid attitude. Irish meat is a highly valued commodity worldwide, carrying a premium price because of this. If a product is advertised as such, it is legally obliged to be as advertised. How would you feel if you thought you were drinking an expensive craft beer and paying a high price for it but in reality the barman was just selling you Carling in a different glass for a higher price? Because that analogy is about right.
I honestly wouldn’t give a bollix. Not high on my concerns list
It’s grand to be high and mighty, I am OAP so I look at price. That decision has been made for me by present government.
You don’t care about being flagrantly ripped off? You don’t care about being sold an inferior product as a premium product? You must have money to burn. Or no common sense whatsoever.
How is our beef superior to other beef? Do we feed our cows magic grass?
You’re wasting your time, Vin.
Dave is a troll
Well dave…it’s actually magic that we do feed our cattle grass and they get to roam around fields, unlike many other countries where they remain housed and feed grain and pumped up with PCP to increase muscle mass due to lack of space and exercise.
And your a bandwagon moron. He’s a troll because he has a different opinion. Not even an opinion. More a question
The meat from grass-fed cattle is infinitely superior to corn or grain-fed cattle which is the norm in many countries.
Thank you al c. A worthwhile explanation
Irish meat is among the best in the world, not necessarily the best. Australian and New Zealand meat is of at least equal quality to Irish meat.
True, Jimbo. Never had it now, but seemingly Argentine beef is supposed to be of similar quality as well.
Dave – never heard of BSE or Variant CJD? You really should care about what you are putting into your system.
http://www.who.int/zoonoses/diseases/bse/en/
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Creutzfeldt-Jakob-disease/Pages/Introduction.aspx
No dave gmo grain
I read the labels but from what we read we are being misled. I want labels that state it was born in Ireland, reared in Ireland and slaughtered in Ireland. this produced in Vietnam, sent to Ireland where it was butchered and labelled as Irish must stop. If it comes from Vietnam it needs to be labelled as such and then I can make a choice. Standards in Ireland are higher and that needs to be differentiated.
Miss Superquinn for that, they were only short of putting the farmers phone number on their labels.
Yes always. I always go with Irish but will accept British if needs be. I won’t buy anything from anywhere else unless its a speciality meat.
Why meat? Why not vegetables or drink or clothes or toys?
We’re kind of obsessed as to where are meat comes from. It must be part of an instinctive human nature. I check too.
*our* meat
Reading the label to avoid additives and chemicals is imperative for good health.
I try keep a eye on the label.
Most recent was Kerry gold garlic bread. Label wrote Made in Germany. I kid you not.
I find you have to read the labels very carefully eg Irish smoked salmon = salmon (from any source) smoked in Ireland , Smoked Irish Salmon = Irish Salmon or Irish stuffed turkey (from any source) stuffed in Ireland , Stuffed Irish turkey = Irish turkey.
It’s either Irish born or not. If it is Irish born then a special logo should be on the packaging. Butchers should have a laminated list of their farm suppliers and what products they supply displayed prominently in the shop.
I always know where it comes from, a cow or a sheep some times a pig or a chicken and an odd bit of horse.
Labels are very important when cooking meat.
Instead of using an egg to help your homemade burgers to bind just add a heaped tablespoon of labels .
Superb.
It’s also interesting to look at the labels on fish-a lot of prawns and other fish are coming from the far east
What abour the other 1% . 45+40+14=99
Jesus time, that sounds like my wife’s maths,
All meat comes from animals which have experienced fear, pain, unimaginable suffering, and no doubt a dash of intentional cruelty mixed in with them losing their lives so you can have a meal. The recent public outcry over the ‘pig on a spit’ in the Stephen’s Green shopping centre highlights the absolute detachment people have when it comes to the decomposing flesh on their plates. I would never hurt or cause pain to another living being, and I wouldn’t pay somebody else to do so either…. Meat eaters do so everyday. Remember that all meat comes from an animal which didn’t want to die.
What if I told you…..plants have feelings.
Veggies! Not enough that you have a preference, everyone has to be wrong because you are right. Sanctimonious twaddle.
Your missing out on salt marsh lamb, beautiful Irish beef, iberico lamb, gubeen charcuterie but good luck on your crusade to teach us barbarians what’s right and wrong. I’d rather be fulfilled and happy
I think you need to look up the definition of decomposing. Meat is not decomposing unless it has started to rot. If a human consumes rotting meat then they will likely become ill, as our digestive system is not equipped to process it. Using emotive and fallacious language such as this does more harm than good to your argument.
If you have ever been on an Irish farm, which I doubt as such a sanctimonious attitude can only come from a privileged city dweller who is totally disconnected from the realities of nature, you would know that free range Irish animals live a much happier life, given food, shelter and protection from predation, than they would in the wild. I have never met a farmer in my life who is intentionally cruel to his animals, it makes no sense to do so as a well treated animal leads to a higher quality product and a higher market price.
Found the vegan.
Plants grow back… Al C lol.
Jimbo, Have you seen meat without the red dye added to it, it can be brown, grey and even green in colour…
I agree with you lovely weather but I do eat plenty of fish myself…
Micheal…I’ve waited months for the opportunity to do my Laurence Fishburne/Morpheous impression.
BTW……carrots. :P
There is plenty of them anyway, just plant the top again lol.
Stopped reading the lables years ago, when it first came out it was good. but since then the wording has been slowly “upgraded” to make you think you know where it’s from and it has actually got to the point that it’s used as an advertisment now (and we all know adverts lie)
I find that most “Irish” products are only Irish now because it’s sold in an Irish shop (and now even half of them arn’t Irish either).
I would be very wary of the local butchers at the moment. We read yesterday about all these cattle going missing. There obviously a market for these animals. The thieves are not going to all the effort for nothing.
In Ireland yes.
In some other countries if it has meat
I don’t question what meat.
Do they mean the use of cat meat in some takeaways in the U.K. or is this here too…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11041594/Cat-heads-found-in-bin-bag-on-Manchesters-Curry-Mile-as-council-investigates-race-hate-angle.html
Go to your butcher and talk to them
About the slapper at number 24, lol.
Mine comes from the fridge
Donkey meat is still used in a lot of things still…
My local butchers in Portlaoise kill the cows in the back of their shop, and the cows are 100% Irish. That’s how I know, but not every butchers do that.
I only buy local organically produced meat and there is no option for that
Moo
stop cutting hedges in season farmers.
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