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A MAN HAS been arrested following the seizure of over €339,000 worth of cocaine in north Dublin.
Revenue officers made the seizure today of almost 5kg of cocaine with an estimated value of €339,500.
The seizure was made as a result of a joint operation conducted by Revenue’s Customs Service, the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau (GNDOCB) and the Coolock Divisional Drugs unit.
A man, aged 22, was arrested by gardaí and detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996 at Swords Garda Station.
Investigations are ongoing.
The operation was part of Revenue’s ongoing joint investigations targeting organised crime groups and the importation, sale and supply of illegal drugs.
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House prices are still out of reach for young people. And if you’re paying huge rent and sharing with a few others you’re not really in a position to have a baby. Government has made it very difficult for people, and people who have it good don’t see that so they dismiss it.
@Rob Gale: unless you decide not to work and get a house provided plus a few quid for the pub
@Rob Gale: How have the government put house prices out of reach?
@sean o’dhubhghaill: They’ve put mortgages out of reach with overly restrictive lending rules
@Siofra Cronin: So you want to head back to the days when the only requirement needed to get a 100%v mortgage was the ability to walk upright?
@sean o’dhubhghaill: have you being asleep for the last 20 years?
Lucky we have the life time lovers of free houses or there be no kids born as every working/career person has a big financial problem when it comes to kids ..
In order to buy a house nowadays, both parties to a couple need to be working and fairly established in their career. First time parents now are having children in their early 30s as opposed to early 20s pre 1980. That’s ruling out effectively half the baby making years from a family. Kinda sad in a way.
Keep Ridin’ for Ireland.
It seems like a classic example of a more educated and career driven population. People in general are focusing on college and establishing a career and choosing to start families later in life.
@Graham McGuinness: are maybe people just aren’t having as sex as much as they used to. I blame the internet and social media.
@The Upside-down Triangle: people can’t afford them the only people having lots of children are the ones who use them to get free houses
@The Upside-down Triangle: people are having more sex than ever before, and that is proven by stats and a spin off of this is the increase in STDs.
Birth drop is down to education,
Economy and personal development.
@The Upside-down Triangle: I’d say they just have more sense – it’s taking that long for young people to get out of their parents house – if you have a kid now you’re nearly expected to look after them til they’re 30
@The Guy is Here: Actually studies from both the US and the UK in 2017 and 2019 respectively show the opposite of what you claim.
Findings from UK study:
Researchers looked at data from the British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles in 1991, 2001, 2012 and 2019 and found that millennials are having sex 4.9 times a month for men and 4.8 times for women, whereas 10 years ago it was 6.2 and 6.3 respectively.
Note that finding is just for millennials, people now aged between 23 and 39. These make up the majority of the group you would expect to be having children now. We certainly live in a more sexualised world these days, but at the same time appear to be having less sex.
@The Upside-down Triangle: Young people can’t get mortgages and are financially crippled by high rents, so they can’t even begin to think about bringing a baby into the equation.
@The Guy is Here: Perhaps people are more likely to get tested in recent times as a result of better awareness, less stigma and easier access to testing?
@The Guy is Here: this is simply false I’m afraid. Millions of young men now are addicted to internet porn and have no interest in pursuing sex, not only that many of them suffer from ED as a result.
@The Guy is Here: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170508-the-many-reasons-that-people-are-having-less-sex
@The Upside-down Triangle:
But look at the strong right arms they now have!
1200+ per month for childcare per child, then afterschool care later on. is anybody in anyway surprised that people are having fewer kids? its a pricey business if you want to work and have ankle biters.
Council housed communities are having 3 to 4 kids as children allowance enables it.
While those targeting careers can’t afford homes and day-care.
Need to tip the balance towards encouraging working families to have larger families.
@Rúraíocht: all families with kids get children’s allowance not just those in council houses
@john doe: no but Council housers are having more cause they get more money out of the rest of us! Some of them haven’t worked a day in their lives and go to the shops in their pyjamas! Lazy shower
@john doe: But workers and taxpayers don’t get a payrise with every child.
The Irish economy is the biggest contraceptive of them all. No kids are happening when there no houses at an affordable rate, even on what would be perceived as 2 middle income salaries. You can bet that the rate would rise if you could have a decent life relative to the cost of living by 25 like previous generations.
@Paul Cunningham:
Yes, and there’s been nothing innovative on horizon from any of our Govt’s. for decades to solve problem.
EU is peppered with Countries with strong social consciences who have implemented very durable models for provision of housing at annual levels where supply just keeps ahead of mkt demand.
Incomprehensible that Ireland can’t do likewise given idle land located close to our cities, towns and villages, now just growing weeds.
Not since FF’s Bobby Molloy, as Minst for Local Gov in early 70’s, when he commissioned the Kenny Report, has any meaningful proposals been put forward to address this increasingly burning issue.
Maybe SF could initiate a similar study on the subject, now that they are flush, following recent windfall from John Bull, if only to wake up FFG!
Not surprising with the cost of living these days.
Jaysus it will be picking up in the next few months with all the lockdown carry on and how’s your father…
@Seagoat returns: Either that or there’ll be a load of lads who look like they’ve been hitting the gym and only exercising one arm
@Pól Ó’hAodha: popeye the one armed sailor
@Seagoat returns: Pam and her 5 sisters
@Alison Maguire: touché
I mo longer use the “I’ve a headache” excuse.
Sorry love, have to social distance tonight I’m afraid.
Falling birthrates and longer life expectancy, there may be trouble ahead.
And hence the retirement age will continue to rise..
@Kieran Brennan: they’ll bring in euthanasia on human rights grounds.
Probably because want to enjoy their life a bit before having kids.
@Sam Harms: And some of us have zero interest in ever having kids, despite people who have never met us claiming otherwise (this has literally happened to me.. got referred by my GP for sterilisation. The consultant decided that, without meeting me, she knew that actually, I hadn’t spent enough time thinking things through, and just needed to be helped to understand that I really do want kids… I’d spent 20ish years at that point knowing I didn’t want to ever experience pregnancy.. but apparently that was irresponsible, whilst changing my mind on a whim at the insistence of someone who didn’t know me was seen as responsible…)
@Sam Harms: Not really. Statistics show for the first time that rich people are having more children than poorer people in Europe and the US. People who can afford them have them. People want to grow up, but if it’s not possible because of the economy they continue behaving like 20 year olds. Don’t confuse the cause with the effect.
Reasonable.
Most families have tellies in the houses now :)
Good.
“Births to women over the age of 40 has risen by 42%”
Who is birthing all these Benjamina Buttons?
Times in with the recession I guess. Became less affordable to have kids.
Human extinction while we still can!
@Mark: That will never happen. The birth rate is generally falling in the Western world but increasing at alarming rates in the developing world.
Trying not to be facetious, but it’s possibly tricky albeit practically impossible if you are practicing social distancing.Stay safe
Birth rate falling and population rising. The countryside emptying and the cities expanding. Internal migration and immigration.
Hmm I wonder is it because alot of people my age late 20s just left …
Trying not to be facetious, but it’s possibly tricky albeit practically impossible if you are practicing social distancing.Stay safe
Trying not to be facetious, but it’s possibly tricky albeit practically impossible if you are practicing social distancing.Stay safe
@Mike Hawkins: what was that again?
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