# customs - Friday 11 March, 2022
# Customs
# Customs
The operation was part of investigations into suspected organised crime in Artane.
# customs - Sunday 20 February, 2022
# Maritime Patrol
# Maritime Patrol
One key mission will be the service’s role in the Joint Task Force on Drug Interdiction.
# customs - Sunday 30 January, 2022
# Seizure
# Seizure
The drugs were concealed in the refrigeration unit of a vehicle that was stopped and searched.
# customs - Tuesday 19 October, 2021
# Halloween
Supply chains and post-Brexit paperwork in the UK may be to blame for the illegal trade in Fireworks in Ireland. Gardaí and Customs have made seizures but in general sources said possessions have reduced. Gardaí have launched Operation Tombola while Customs have targeted shipments arriving into Ireland via the postal network.
# customs - Thursday 5 August, 2021
# Smuggling
# Smuggling
The cigarettes were discovered inside a container using Revenue’s mobile x-ray scanner.
# customs - Thursday 15 July, 2021
# Dublin Port
# Dublin Port
The tobacco products were found in a container which had come from Asia via the Netherlands.
# Cuba
# Cuba
The change will be in effect until the end of the year.
# customs - Monday 10 May, 2021
# Brexit
# Brexit
The remarks were made at an Oireachtas committee today.
# customs - Monday 8 February, 2021
# Customs
# Customs
Revenue has apologised for “intermittent performances” with its import system.
# customs - Monday 18 January, 2021
# Dublin Port
# Dublin Port
“I wouldn’t say it’s a delay – I would say this is very much the new norm,” Tom Talbot of Revenue said.
# customs - Sunday 17 January, 2021
# Disruption
# Disruption
More than 70% of trucks are completing paperwork before moving goods, and are being ‘green-lighted’ to leave Irish ports.
# customs - Friday 1 January, 2021
# Post Brexit
# Post Brexit
Friday saw the first ferries arrive in Ireland from Britain under new trade rules following the end of the Brexit transition period.
# customs - Thursday 31 December, 2020
# Brexit
# Brexit
New checks and processes on trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland will come into operation at 11pm tonight.
# customs - Saturday 31 October, 2020
# 31 December
# 31 December
Brexit continues to trundle towards us – here’s a bit more information about what is changing.
# customs - Saturday 24 October, 2020
# Customs
# Customs
British driving licences made invalid, a customs-check comeback, and what to do with the UK landbridge.
# customs - Tuesday 11 August, 2020
# Drug Crime
# Drug Crime
A package was intercepted by Revenue officers today after analysis of a seized mobile phone.
# customs - Friday 12 June, 2020
# Brexit
# Brexit
The Brexit transition period is due to end on 31 December.
# customs - Tuesday 10 March, 2020
# Dublin Airport
# Dublin Airport
The cigarettes were seized after officers searched a man who disembarked a flight from Cairo.
# customs - Sunday 12 January, 2020
# Smuggling
# Smuggling
One person suggested that they should “erect poles at every road crossing the border between Northern Ireland and the South”.
# customs - Monday 14 October, 2019
# Brexit
# Brexit
There are doubts about the feasibility of a British proposal to track goods as they move through Northern Ireland.
# customs - Wednesday 2 October, 2019
# No Deal
# No Deal
The British Prime Minister is today expected to again stress that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October, one way or another.
# customs - Monday 9 September, 2019
# Seized
# Seized
The contraband originated in countries including Cameroon, Indonesia, India and Japan.
# customs - Monday 19 August, 2019
# Puppies
# Puppies
The puppies were found concealed among furniture in a van.
# customs - Thursday 1 August, 2019
# Front Line
# Front Line
The UK government has allocated £2.1 billion in funding to speed up the process.
# customs - Tuesday 25 June, 2019
# Exotic Animals
# Exotic Animals
The ISPCA has called for tougher regulations around the selling of exotic animals as pets.
# customs - Wednesday 13 March, 2019
# Now What
# Now What
Border inspection posts would be needed to inspect animal products coming from outside the EU.
# customs - Thursday 20 December, 2018
# Revenue
# Revenue
The four dogs were not microchipped and did not have the proper documentation.
# customs - Tuesday 27 November, 2018
# Down To The Wire
# Down To The Wire
3,000 job applications for 600 customs positions have been received.
# customs - Saturday 17 November, 2018
# Drugs Seizure
# Drugs Seizure
The 15kg of heroin was discovered in a woman’s luggage.
# customs - Thursday 19 July, 2018
As the Brexit backstop will not apply to Ireland’s ports, work is underway to add new custom checks and new infrastructure.
# customs - Thursday 5 July, 2018
# Child Safety
# Child Safety
The Cabinet approved the sharing of travel information of child sex offenders from the US to Ireland and vice versa.
# customs - Tuesday 15 May, 2018
# Northern Ireland
# Northern Ireland
The Prime Minister met with Conservative MPs yesterday to discuss future customs arrangements.
# customs - Tuesday 8 May, 2018
# Customs Union
# Customs Union
Britain’s Foreign Secretary said “a whole new web of bureaucracy” could be created.
# customs - Monday 2 April, 2018
# Dublin Port
# Dublin Port
Father-of-two Alvydus Simkus has an address in Limerick.
# customs - Saturday 31 March, 2018
# Drugs
# Drugs
A 55-year-old non-national male has been arrested.
# customs - Tuesday 26 September, 2017
# Colombo
# Colombo
The man is reportedly a courier for an organised smuggling ring.
# customs - Thursday 15 June, 2017
# Nothing To Declare
# Nothing To Declare
And some very clever sniffer dogs will be helping out too.
# customs - Friday 26 May, 2017
# Cannabis Herb
# Cannabis Herb
The seizure was made by customs officials.
# customs - Monday 10 April, 2017
# Connolly Station
# Connolly Station
“I was told, ‘Just stand there and look intelligent’. I hadn’t a clue what was going on.”
# customs - Tuesday 4 April, 2017
# Snakes On A Plane
# Snakes On A Plane
Australia’s Border Force cleared things up: “Things you can post to Australia…”
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