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THE CENTRAL STATISTICS Office (CSO) has confirmed that a computer glitch resulted in the small village of Kerrykeel in Donegal being pinpointed as one of the worst areas in the country for crime.
Crime statistics for the second quarter of 2013 were released on Tuesday, including a breakdown of crimes by garda stations across the country on the CSO website.
The newly published figures suggested a significant increase in crimes like fraud, burglary and sexual assault in the village of 400 residents. The statistics were actually those of Kevin Street Garda Station in Dublin’s city cenre.
A spokesperson for the CSO told TheJournal.ie that this was caused by “a temporary computer glitch in the outputting”.
“It was brought to our attention that day and was corrected by 1pm on Tuesday – as soon as it was brought to our attention it was immediately fixed,” they said.
The spokesperson said they were not aware of this happening before with crime statistics.
Editor of the Tirconnell Tribune, John McAteer, told the BBC that people in the “sleepy village” of Kerrykeel were “shocked” by the incident.
“This is a very quiet and beautiful place and the mistake has become the talk in local shops and pubs,” he said.
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In 2008 1.7tonne was worth 650million,In 2023 2.3tonne is worth 157million.
Cost of living crisis must be hitting the drug dealers also these days.
@John Sleator: That’s a good one john
Street Value……I do wonder what streets the Guards are buying their drugs on……
@Shane Scanlan: asking for a friend?
@Shane Scanlan: “what street do you buy your drugs on? Because it’s not the same street I buy my drugs on!”
@Shane Scanlan: I don’t know but if they ever want a better deal then they should go somewhere else
@Shane Scanlan:at that price their probably selling around Temple bar
Pointless waste of money.
Note that there will be no follow up reporting – there never is – on the actual impact of things like this.
We need information.
How much do drugs polices cost taxpayers? (millions a year at least)
What impact do they have on availability of drugs? (85% of drugs aren’t intercepted, so the educated guess would be that the impact is negligible and very tempory at best – more likely the impact is closer to zero)
Relative to their cost, bearing in mind how badly we need money to eg pay carers, what is the point of these policies?
Not reducing supply. Supply is unaffected.
Not reducing deaths. We have twice the OD deaths of Portugal, which has twice our population.
So what’s the point?
I’m all for letting the lads shoot machine guns into the ocean, but surely that can’t justify the cost.
@Chris O’Brien: seeing as a kilo starts for about 2k from it’s point of origin the original value of the cocaine probably cost less than the surveillance alone.
@Butters: the real cost is the impact, not how much it costs to make them. It doesn’t cost much to make bullets, but they do a lot of harm. However, I would not assume to know the impact this haul would make or not make, I’m just thinking about the desperately addicted people here.
Great work by all involved, maybe tip of the iceberg but it keeps some of the filth off our streets.
@Eamon: Why are people so negative. A budget amount is given for all the law enforcement agencies for the purpose of detecting and seizing drugs entering Ireland. While I agree that drugs are imported every week into Ireland a seizure like this, no matter how small people think it is, should be celebrate. How many lives has this seizure saved ?. And I don’t mean deaths from drugs. There are serious OCG running riot in this country and importation of drugs is just 1 of their sources of income. They reek havoc every where, people smuggling for slavery, prostitution, extreme porn. Let’s celebrate 1 up for the good guys
On my way to Wexford for 2 x bags of strawberries…
@Paddy: Double dips ? On blotter paper?
@Brian Keelty: showing your age there I think lol
We should keep and it sell ourselves to pay off our debt. By bedtime tonight the Garda will estimate the haul to be now worth 600 trillion bajilloon euros.
Has the value of cocaine decreased since 2008? I’d have thought that it went up.
Great money in Drugs.. Surprised Michael and Paschal don’t have a tax tied to it….
Then they’d know the drug dealers
Probably bound for the UK and we done them a favour
By the time it’s cut up Irish dtyle6itll be 10 x that.
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