# smuggling - Tuesday 27 May, 2014
# Smuggled
# Smuggled
Revenue intercepted the container at Dublin Port yesterday.
# smuggling - Monday 26 May, 2014
# On The Move
# On The Move
Michaella McCollum Connolly and Melissa Reid were convicted of attempting to smuggle cocaine from Peru to Spain.
# smuggling - Friday 25 April, 2014
# Ruff Justice
# Ruff Justice
The pair had ingested over 100 pellets containing the drug.
# smuggling - Wednesday 9 April, 2014
# Black Market
# Black Market
Retailers are calling on the government to step up their fight against smugglers.
# smuggling - Monday 6 January, 2014
# Revenue
# Revenue
More than 16,000 cigarettes were seized from the man’s luggage after he arrived on a flight from Dubai earlier today.
# smuggling - Thursday 24 October, 2013
# Smoking
# Smoking
Under a provision of the Finance Bill published today, authorities will be allowed to search “any bag or receptacle” that they reasonably believe contains an illegally smuggled tobacco product.
# smuggling - Monday 21 October, 2013
# Collared
From The Daily Edge
# Collared
He’s in for it now!
# smuggling - Monday 14 October, 2013
# Mccollum Connolly
# Mccollum Connolly
Michaella McCollum Connolly and Melissa Reid have been transferred from a low security facility, and could now be sharing a cell with as many as 38 other inmates.
# smuggling - Wednesday 2 October, 2013
# Peru
# Peru
Last week a prosecutor said they would need to give a fuller confession if they expected to have their sentences reduced.
# smuggling - Wednesday 25 September, 2013
# Michaella McCollum Connolly
# Michaella McCollum Connolly
Michaella McCollum Connolly and Melissa Reid entered guilty pleas at a court hearing last night.
# smuggling - Sunday 15 September, 2013
# Smuggling
# Smuggling
15 million cigarettes have been seized in the first half of this year, compared with 95 million last year.
# smuggling - Tuesday 3 September, 2013
# Mccollum Connolly
# Mccollum Connolly
Set up by her sister, the fund for Michaella McCollum Connolly aims to raise £20,000.
# smuggling - Friday 23 August, 2013
# Immigration
# Immigration
Tony Abbott wants Australia to pay “wardens” in Indonesian villages as well as bounty payments to curb immigration into Australia.
# smuggling - Saturday 10 August, 2013
# Spain
# Spain
IDs, stamps, a gun and passports were among the items found by the alleged gang.
# smuggling - Friday 7 June, 2013
# Tea-bacco
# Tea-bacco
The tobacco was discovered when customs officers intercepted a van at a location in Dublin on Wednesday.
# smuggling - Friday 17 May, 2013
# Smuggling
# Smuggling
The 38-year-old lorry driver from Tyrone was sentenced to 14 years in jail today after being caught with a large amount of cannabis in his truck.
# smuggling - Sunday 21 April, 2013
# Smuggling
# Smuggling
Up to 100 retailers are to meet tomorrow evening on the issues of cigarette smuggling and illegal cigarette selling in Dublin.
# smuggling - Monday 18 March, 2013
# At Risk
# At Risk
For every endangered animal in a pet shop or home – ten others could have died during capture or transportation.
# smuggling - Friday 8 March, 2013
# Drugs
# Drugs
Revenue said separate discoveries of drugs and cigarettes this week would have been worth about €65,000.
# smuggling - Wednesday 6 March, 2013
# Drugs
# Drugs
The report from the International Narcotics Control Board said Europe alone almost one new substance is appearing every week.
# smuggling - Thursday 23 August, 2012
# Smuggling
# Smuggling
Two airline stewards were off-duty when they were detained by authorities over alleged smuggling of cigarettes from the Canary Islands.
# smuggling - Wednesday 8 August, 2012
# Smuggling
# Smuggling
Interpol says coordinated investigation into theft of sports cars worth around €6m involved 14 member states.
# smuggling - Sunday 15 July, 2012
# Your Say
# Your Say
The Health Minister James Reilly wants to increase the price of 20 cigarettes by around €6 in the next six years. What do you think?
# smuggling - Wednesday 16 May, 2012
# Smuggling
# Smuggling
Seizures were made in three separate operations today by the Revenue’s Customs Service.
# smuggling - Tuesday 15 May, 2012
# Smuggling
# Smuggling
US border protection agents noticed something strange about the wheelchair cushion…
# Revenue
# Revenue
Finance Minister says Revenue sometimes requires interpreters when questioning passengers who have insufficient Irish or English.
# smuggling - Tuesday 8 May, 2012
# Capsules
# Capsules
South Korean officials said yesterday that they intercepted the smuggling of capsules containing the flesh of deceased infants.
# smuggling - Monday 7 May, 2012
# Smuggling
# Smuggling
Customs officers intercepted smuggled capsules from China which they say contained human flesh.
# smuggling - Sunday 15 April, 2012
# Cigarettes
# Cigarettes
The “L&M” brand cigarettes, seized at Rosslare, had a reported retail value of €1.4 million.
# smuggling - Friday 13 April, 2012
# Seizure
# Seizure
The Revenue Commissioners said that it would take a number of months before any prosecutions would be brought forward after 38 million cigarettes, worth nearly €15 million, were seized yesterday.
# smuggling - Thursday 12 April, 2012
# Smuggling
# Smuggling
Revenue officials say the illegal cigarettes had a retail value of €14.7 million.
# smuggling - Monday 9 April, 2012
# Cigarettes
# Cigarettes
The average fine for cigarette smuggling last year was less than €2,000, according to Revenue figures.
# smuggling - Wednesday 22 February, 2012
# Customs
# Customs
Customs officials seized more than 27,000 cigarettes from the baggage of a British national in Dublin Airport today.
# smuggling - Friday 3 February, 2012
# Cigarettes
# Cigarettes
The cigarettes and tobacco seized in a series of raids were worth more than €80,000.
# smuggling - Monday 30 January, 2012
# Cigarettes
# Cigarettes
Over 109 million illegal cigarettes with a retail value of €45.9m were seized by Revenue Customs officials last year.
# smuggling - Thursday 29 December, 2011
# Illegal Cigarettes
# Illegal Cigarettes
Customs believe that the three people who were said to be carrying the cigarettes are part of an Eastern European cigarette smuggling gang.
# smuggling - Monday 19 December, 2011
# Smuggling
# Smuggling
The seizure, with an estimated street value of nearly €4 million, was made at a premises in Co Monaghan over the weekend.
# smuggling - Friday 16 December, 2011
# Take 5
# Take 5
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
# smuggling - Sunday 11 December, 2011
# Smoking
# Smoking
The Exchequer is losing out on €250million a year – or around half the amount recently cut from the social welfare budget.
# smuggling - Thursday 1 December, 2011
# Take 5
# Take 5
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
A couple of showers; breezy this morning
Max: 15 °C
Min: 8 °C
Occasional rain and drizzle
Max: 14 °C
Min: 6 °C
Clouds and sun with a couple of showers
Max: 13 °C
Min: 6 °C
