# 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…”
# customs - Wednesday 15 March, 2017
# Glanmire
# Glanmire
A 50-year-old man is currently being detained at Mayfield Garda Station.
# customs - Monday 19 December, 2016
# Crackdown
# Crackdown
Officers conducted a number of operations designed to clamp down on illegal activity in the run-up to Christmas.
# customs - Wednesday 19 October, 2016
# Operation Thor
# Operation Thor
It is the ninth such concentrated day of action nationwide.
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