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Drugs seized in Portlaoise Mail Centre Revenue

Drugs worth almost €100,000 discovered in parcels at postal centre

Drugs were discovered in two packages marked ‘clothing’.

REVENUE OFFICERS HAVE seized drugs worth almost €100,000 from separate parcels at a mail centre in Co Laois.

Yesterday, officers assisted by a detector dog seized approximately 4.7kg of herbal cannabis with an estimated street value of €94,000 following a search arising from routine profiling at Portlaoise Mail Centre.

The cannabis was found in a parcel which had orignated from Canada and was declared as ‘clothing’.

A further 6kg of Khat with an estimated value of €3,000, was also detected in a parcel declared as ‘clothing’, following the search of a package which originated in Kenya.

Both parcels containing the drugs were destined for addresses in Dublin.

Investigations in relation to both seizures are ongoing, with a view to prosecution.

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    Mute Mary Nugent
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    Aug 2nd 2021, 1:05 AM

    Years away in this Country, it has always been disgraceful. The things of insult Mothers and Fathers have gone through for years and years. To get the best that they can for their childern, when they are adults it’s still the same.

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    Aug 2nd 2021, 9:34 AM

    Thank you, Maria Delaney, for a well written and thoroughly researched article. Without the support from disability groups, this project appears to be a political vanity project – something to point to and say “Look, we do care about disability issues, see what we built.” One can only hope that the funding won’t be at the cost of the types of services disability groups actually want. And one might hope that journalism like this forces better consultation procedures in the future.

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    Aug 2nd 2021, 10:19 AM

    Your getting it weather you like it or not so shane Ross

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    Aug 2nd 2021, 2:04 PM

    @Mary Paget: I don’t like bad weather, or shane for that matter.

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    Mute Mary Paget
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    Aug 2nd 2021, 6:30 PM

    Hi f off

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    Aug 2nd 2021, 6:31 PM

    @Luan Willis: f off

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    Aug 2nd 2021, 2:04 PM

    It was obvious to the disability community, that this is a terrible idea.
    We have people from across the disability spectrum saying it.
    All the people quoted in this article against it, are disabled.
    Those for it, are not.
    Nothing About Us, Without Us.
    #UNCRPD is not a wish list it is the United Nation Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This plan goes against everything it it.
    The government need to keep their word

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    Aug 2nd 2021, 12:53 PM

    Voice of Vision Impairment, is not the only disabled person’s organisation for vision-impaired people in Ireland.

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    Mute Mary Paget
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    Aug 2nd 2021, 6:29 PM

    That was as time consuming as war and peace ffs

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