# contraband - Thursday 19 May, 2022
# Seized
# Seized
The contraband represents 80 to 100 slaughtered elephants.
# contraband - Monday 15 February, 2021
# Contraband
# Contraband
The cigarettes were discovered in a lorry which had arrived from France.
# contraband - Wednesday 18 November, 2020
# Mountjoy Prison
# Mountjoy Prison
A file will now be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
# contraband - Thursday 19 December, 2019
# Caught
# Caught
At Dublin Port, alone, €87 million worth has been seized since 2016.
# contraband - Monday 9 September, 2019
# Seized
# Seized
The contraband originated in countries including Cameroon, Indonesia, India and Japan.
# contraband - Wednesday 4 September, 2019
# Patrick Dadey
# Patrick Dadey
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
# Wexford
# Wexford
The discovery was made after a vehicle that arrived from France was searched.
# contraband - Monday 26 February, 2018
# Contraband
# Contraband
557 weapons were also seized in Irish prisons last year.
# contraband - Monday 12 February, 2018
# Dublin Airport
# Dublin Airport
The cash and cigarettes were seized in three separate incidents in Dublin Airport.
# contraband - Thursday 31 August, 2017
# Contraband
# Contraband
The figure is up on last year, but way down on 2008 when about 42-a -week were seized.
# contraband - Monday 28 August, 2017
# Undeclared
# Undeclared
Over 28,000 contraband cigarettes were seized at Dublin Airport this weekend.
# contraband - Tuesday 1 March, 2016
# Kildare
# Kildare
This came as part of the ongoing Operation Thor.
# contraband - Thursday 28 January, 2016
# Cigarettes
# Cigarettes
Revenue said that the total amount seized represented a loss of almost €4 million to the taxpayer.
# contraband - Monday 6 July, 2015
# Dangerous
# Dangerous
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
# Contraband
# Contraband
Nearly half of those were in Mountjoy Prison.
# contraband - Wednesday 5 November, 2014
# Contraband
# Contraband
The search was carried out early yesterday morning.
# contraband - Tuesday 4 November, 2014
# Contraband
# Contraband
The search was based on intelligence gathered.
# contraband - Thursday 21 August, 2014
# Tobacco
# Tobacco
The accusations come after a report from the Revenue Commissioners into illegal tobacco flooding Ireland.
# contraband - Tuesday 12 August, 2014
# Contraband
# Contraband
About 30 phones were found in the high security prison.
# contraband - Tuesday 8 January, 2013
# Let Miaowt
From The Daily Edge
# Let Miaowt
The animal was nabbed while sneaking a phone and saws to a convict in Sao Paulo.
# contraband - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
# Contraband
# Contraband
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
# Revenue
# Revenue
The eight million cigarettes were seized by the Revenue’s Customs Service in boxes labelled “Garlic & Cheese Tear & Share”.
# contraband - Monday 24 September, 2012
# Seized
# Seized
The cigarettes, of brands which are not otherwise sold in Ireland, were stored in a shipment described as ‘furniture’.
# contraband - Friday 17 February, 2012
# Courts
# Courts
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
# Weapons
# Weapons
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
# Gaffe
From The Daily Edge
# Gaffe
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
# Crime
# Crime
Three men are arrested after a major seizure of cigarettes – worth around €2.9m – at Baldonnell Business Park.
# contraband - Wednesday 25 May, 2011
# Contraband
# Contraband
Customs officers seize another batch of illegally imported cigarettes, which came from China through Holland.
# contraband - Wednesday 19 January, 2011
# Contraband
From The Daily Edge
# Contraband
Three people, including a monk, have been arrested at a Greek airport after the remains of a dead nun were found in their luggage.
