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#Contraband
# contraband - Thursday 19 December, 2019
Over €100 million of smuggled contraband has been seized at Irish airports and ports since 2016
At Dublin Port, alone, €87 million worth has been seized since 2016.
# contraband - Monday 9 September, 2019
Dried bat, horse's tail and 37 crocodile teeth - the strange items people try to smuggle into Ireland
The contraband originated in countries including Cameroon, Indonesia, India and Japan.
# contraband - Wednesday 4 September, 2019
British prison officer jailed for smuggling €100k of contraband into Wandsworth
A significant amount of contraband including cannabis, steroids, mobile phones, tobacco and other illicit items were found in cereal boxes in the laundry room by another prison officer in 2018.
# contraband - Monday 13 May, 2019
Man questioned after Revenue seizes more than 27,000 illegal cigarettes
The discovery was made after a vehicle that arrived from France was searched.
# contraband - Monday 26 February, 2018
Volume of drug seizures in Irish prisons soars by 42%, as over 1,000 recorded last year
557 weapons were also seized in Irish prisons last year.
# contraband - Monday 12 February, 2018
Two women arrested after Revenue seizes 46,000 cigarettes and €44,000 cash
The cash and cigarettes were seized in three separate incidents in Dublin Airport.
# contraband - Thursday 31 August, 2017
An average of 12 phones are seized in Irish prisons every week
The figure is up on last year, but way down on 2008 when about 42-a -week were seized.
# contraband - Monday 28 August, 2017
Over €19,000 worth of smuggled alcohol and cigarettes seized in Dublin
Over 28,000 contraband cigarettes were seized at Dublin Airport this weekend.
# contraband - Tuesday 1 March, 2016
Gardaí bust uncovers drugs and contraband in crime crackdown
This came as part of the ongoing Operation Thor.
# contraband - Thursday 28 January, 2016
9.5 million illegal cigarettes seized from Dublin, Tipperary and Meath
Revenue said that the total amount seized represented a loss of almost €4 million to the taxpayer.
# contraband - Monday 6 July, 2015
These are just some of the lethal homemade weapons seized in Irish prisons
The Irish Prison Service launched a confidential helpline today for inmates and members of the public to report information about contraband.
# contraband - Thursday 19 March, 2015
Over 90 mobile phones were seized in Irish prisons in six weeks
Nearly half of those were in Mountjoy Prison.
# contraband - Wednesday 5 November, 2014
Hooch, mobile phones and 421 tablets all found in cell search in Mountjoy
The search was carried out early yesterday morning.
# contraband - Tuesday 4 November, 2014
Heroin, cocaine and 14 mobile phones found in one wing of Mountjoy Prison
The search was based on intelligence gathered.
# contraband - Thursday 21 August, 2014
Irish Cancer Society accuses tobacco companies of enabling illegal trade
The accusations come after a report from the Revenue Commissioners into illegal tobacco flooding Ireland.
# contraband - Tuesday 12 August, 2014
Mobile phones, modems and USB keys found in dissident wing of Portlaoise Prison
About 30 phones were found in the high security prison.
# contraband - Tuesday 8 January, 2013
PIC: Inmate smuggles contraband into jail... on a cat
The animal was nabbed while sneaking a phone and saws to a convict in Sao Paulo.
# contraband - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
351,000 contraband cigarettes seized at Dublin Port
The cigarettes would have posed a loss to the Exchequer of about €120,000, and were disguised as ‘advertising material’.
# contraband - Monday 8 October, 2012
€3.1 million worth of contraband cigarettes seized at Dublin Port
The eight million cigarettes were seized by the Revenue’s Customs Service in boxes labelled “Garlic & Cheese Tear & Share”.
# contraband - Monday 24 September, 2012
7.6 million contraband cigarettes seized at Dublin Port
The cigarettes, of brands which are not otherwise sold in Ireland, were stored in a shipment described as ‘furniture’.
# contraband - Friday 17 February, 2012
John Gilligan sentenced over contraband mobile phone
The convicted drug deal has been given an additional six months for possession of a mobile phone, which is forbidden for prisoners.
# contraband - Saturday 28 January, 2012
The 9 at 9: Saturday
In today’s 9 at 9: Millionaires and their income tax, Facebook, and a NAMA building is occupied…
More than 15,000 contraband items seized in Irish prisons
In the past two years, almost 3,000 weapons have been confiscated from prisoners, including homemade items such as sharpened toothbrushes and pool balls in socks.
# contraband - Friday 20 January, 2012
Mark Wahlberg apologises for saying he could have prevented 9/11 hijackings
Wahlberg had suggested he could have single-handedly prevented the tragedy if he had been on one of the planes.
# contraband - Wednesday 22 June, 2011
Seven million contraband cigarettes seized in Dublin raid
Three men are arrested after a major seizure of cigarettes – worth around €2.9m – at Baldonnell Business Park.
# contraband - Wednesday 25 May, 2011
4.1 million contraband cigarettes seized at Dublin Port
Customs officers seize another batch of illegally imported cigarettes, which came from China through Holland.
# contraband - Wednesday 19 January, 2011
Take 5: Wednesday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
Monk caught smuggling nun's remains onto flight
Three people, including a monk, have been arrested at a Greek airport after the remains of a dead nun were found in their luggage.
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Poll: Will you take up a new hobby over the next few weeks?
LAST WEEK, TAOISEACH Leo Varadkar announced further restrictions for a two-week period until Easter Sunday, 12 April.
Everybody in Ireland has been told to stay at home for two weeks, except essential workers travelling to work and other exceptions.
People who do leave their homes for exercise will be required to stay within a 2km radius.
Shielding or cocooning has also be introduced for all of those over 70 years of age and specific categories of people who are extremely vulnerable to Covid-19.
With everyone being asked to stay at home, people may find themselves with a lot more free time on their hands than usual.
So, today we want to know: Will you take up a new hobby over the next few weeks?
Poll Results:
No, I'm still working and haven't got a minute (3195)
Yes, I plan to take up a new hobby (1835)
No, I'll spend my time staring at the TV (1276)
I'm not sure / no opinion (1001)
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