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Sunday 25 October 2020
Young people in particular are being targeted by criminal organisations.
The thefts took place in Dublin, Wicklow, Galway, Meath and Kilkenny in recent weeks.
Two men, aged 31 and 41, have been arrested and are currently being detained.
Two men were arrested during the operation.
Sixteen searches were carried out, including 12 residential premises, three commercial premises, and one professional premises.
One man was arrested and is being held in Navan Garda Station.
€40,000 in cash and four cars were also seized.
Gardaí said the searches were conducted as part of Operation Coronation, “a central plank” of the plan targeting organised crime in Limerick.
The searches were carried out in Kilkenny and Waterford yesterday.
Cash in euro and sterling, jewellery and mobile phones were seized during the operation.
Two arrests were made following the searches on Friday.
The searches today formed part of an ongoing investigation into a local organised crime gang.
He is currently detained at Mountjoy Garda Station.
A man in his 60s has been arrested.
Declan Brady was sentenced to 11-and-a-half years imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court.
Six properties were searched by the PSNI across Belfast today.
Charlie Flanagan urged the community to work with the gardaí to tackle crime during a visit to Coolock in north Dublin this morning.
The operation targeting organised criminal activity took place yesterday evening.
Phones, electronic devices and documentation seized during the searches will be analysed by specialists in CAB.
Five homes and a solicitor’s office were searched during the operation.
Gardaí have said that over 50 murder attempts have been foiled in recent years.
The Criminal Assets Bureau called this morning’s search operation a “significant development”.
Six have been charged after an almost year-long investigation, police said.
CAB said that a total of eight searches were carried out in Monaghan.
The parts were recovered in Meath and Kildare, gardaí said.
Five people were arrested after searches in Wexford and Dublin yesterday.
The operation was part of an investigation into organised crime.
A man was arrested and released without charge in relation to the seizure.
The gang is suspected of being involved in commercial burglaries nationwide.
Gary Gleeson and Stephen Dunne were sentenced to 12 years each.
More than a million euro worth of drugs were discovered in follow-up searches.
A number of searches were carried out in Wicklow and Dublin today.
The mobster, who was nicknamed ‘The Beast’ for his cruelty, died in hospital in the early hours of this morning.
The men were arrested when gardaí searched a house in Cahir.
The four men are all from Dublin. One is in his 60s, one is in his 20s and two others are in their 30s.
The gang made in excess of £150,000 from the operation.
The man is currently being held at Finglas Garda Station.
Assistant Commissioner John O’Driscoll said in many of these circumstances offenders were found with weapons and wearing balaclavas.
The drugs were seized when a vehicle was stopped and searched in Slane on Saturday.
Members of the syndicate have also been charged with robbery, murder-for-hire conspiracy and firearms offences.
WE’RE LESS THAN a week out from the scariest night of the year.
Halloween will look somewhat different this year but there’s nothing stopping us breaking out the box of decorations, throwing on a witch’s hat and doing up the outside of the house.
Cobwebs, ghouls and goblins, a scary pumpkin, there’s plenty of inspiration around at the moment as more and more people gear up for the 31st.
This morning, we want to know: Have you decorated your house for Halloween?
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Richard Nairns details some of what he discovered when he moved to Ned’s Wood in Co Wicklow.
Some sun, a shower in spots in the p.m.
Max: 11 °C
Min: 7 °C
Winds subsiding with a couple of showers
Max: 12 °C
Min: 5 °C
Clouds breaking, rain ending; breezy
Max: 11 °C
Min: 6 °C
