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A MAN HAS been arrested following the seizure of over €4.1 million worth of cannabis at Rosslare Europort.
As a result of risk profiling and with the assisttance of Revenue’s mobile x-ray scanner, approximately 200kg of herbal cannabis and 30kg of cannabis resin was seized at Rosslare yesterday.
The illicit drugs, with an approximate value of €4,190,440, were discovered after Revenue officers stopped and searched an unaccompanied freight unit that had disembarked a ferry from Cherbourg in France.
Approximately 200kg of herbal cannabis and 30kg of cannabis resin was seized.
A man, aged in his 30s, was arrested by gardaí. He is currently detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996 at a garda station in Wexford.
Investigations are ongoing.
Wow comments open for this
I do love when they forget to close the comments.
So has the state earned 4.1 million? Has it somehow saved 4.1 million.? Will that be it, the war won? You have to wonder what’s the fkn point? I do at least.
@Chutes: so you’re coming clean as a user. can you provide pls your address?
@Chris: Coming clean as a user? Can you get fkd?
@Chutes: Tis but a drop in the ocean
No cheap alcohol, no head shops, no smoking in pubs, a war on vapes, not a hope in hell of cannabis being decriminalised let alone legalised in the strictest nanny state on the planet lol
@Harry Cock: yeah definitely have stricter drug and alcohol laws then the likes of Dubai and Saudi Arabia
@Martin Mongan: nice try, but Ireland isn’t an Islamic state…………yet
@Harry Cock: well both Ireland and Saudi Arabia are countries on this planet. I don’t believe you say biggest non Muslim did you hahahah
@Martin Mongan: he’s a troll don’t waste your breath
@Martin Mongan: those are not real countries in terms of ‘freedoms’
Ffs
Love the headline on the previous article…. Oil giant GP…never heard of them.
@Jp Cleary: got doctored
What I don’t understand is that so many culprits get suspended sentences after commiting teft,battery or attacking people.
@hans vos: no room is prison for small crime
Was ut for the locals or the asylum seekers?
@Pato: You’re Back Again!!!!! Full time commentator!!
Just legalise it and let the Gardai deal with important issues.
@Todd Hebert: Unfortunately that’s not how business works. More laws, more bans, more work.
We need capital punishment for such crimes
@Murray peter: another proponent for Sharia law in Ireland.
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