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Cocaine

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Revealed: How Hezbollah fundraisers helped finance the €157m MV Matthew drug operation

Eight relative bit players in the drama have been sentenced today – this is the story of the smuggling operation’s origins.

Niall O'Connor

1 hr ago

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courtmacsherry

Four men charged in connection with seizure of €31m worth of cocaine in Co Cork

22 hrs ago

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Cocaine

Taoiseach says there ‘could be link’ between falling alcohol consumption and increased cocaine use

2 Jul

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Addiction

Cocaine the main drug in almost 40% of addiction treatment cases last year

28 May

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Drugs Seizure

Three held after €500k of drugs and 200 rounds of ammunition seized in Limerick

7 May

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Organised Crime Group

Three men sentenced for roles in transporting cocaine from Dublin to the North via train

11 Apr

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Seizure

Man arrested in Clondalkin after gardaí seize over €500,000 worth of cocaine and MDMA

22 Mar

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Drug seizure

Two men charged as gardaí seize over €85,000 worth of cocaine in sweet packets

20 Mar

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Drug use

Irish cocaine use 'directly linked' to criminal cartels and street intimidation

8 Mar

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Blanchardstown

Two men due in court in connection with seizure of €1.4m worth of cocaine in Dublin

22 Feb

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Dublin

Gardaí seize €350,000 worth of cocaine after probationer notices suspicious behaviour at traffic stop

13 Feb

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Cocaine

MV Matthew: Trial of two men for alleged part in country's biggest trafficking seizure begins

The 2.25 tonnes of cocaine that was seized from the MV Matthew, a Panamanian-registered bulk carrier, has an estimated value of more than €157 million.

Niall O'Connor

Updated 11 Feb

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Mountmellick

Three men arrested after cocaine and cannabis worth €12.8 million seized in Co Laois

Updated 5 Feb

20.5k

Courts

Boy accused of supplying cocaine on Royal Canal barred from using bicycles, e-scooters, or 'anything on wheels'

18 Jan

23.4k

operation tara

Man arrested after gardaí seize over €120,000 worth of cocaine and cannabis in Wicklow

7 Jan

12.1k

Courts

Man jailed for 10 years for smuggling €21m worth of cocaine to Ireland on cargo ship from Brazil

17 Dec 2024

10.4k

port of cork

Revenue find €3 million worth of cocaine in a container of bananas at the Port of Cork

11 Dec 2024

9.2k

Courts

Brazilian woman jailed for attempting to smuggle €83,000 worth of cocaine into Ireland

5 Dec 2024

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Drug seizure

Limerick gang boss Christy Keane arrested over €560,000 cocaine seizure

24 Nov 2024

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Investigation

Three men arrested as drugs, Rolex watches and Range Rover seized by gardaí in Galway

20 Nov 2024

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Court

Man who attempted to smuggle half a million euro worth of cocaine into Ireland has been jailed

23 Oct 2024

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Drugs

Cocaine worth €70,000 seized in Limerick city

12 Oct 2024

10.6k

Revenue

Man (50s) arrested after €2.5 million worth of cocaine seized at Rosslare Europort

11 Oct 2024

7.5k

Rosslare

Gardaí seize 30 kilograms of cocaine worth €2.1m in Co Wexford

10 Oct 2024

9.1k

Anthony Stokes

Sentencing of former Republic of Ireland footballer delayed pending drug test result

1 Oct 2024

4.6k

Anthony Stokes

Sentencing of former Republic of Ireland footballer delayed pending drug test result

1 Oct 2024

9.4k

Drug deaths

Pandemic 'likely explains fewer drug deaths in 2021' but cocaine use in pubs is the 'big story'

25 Sep 2024

16.8k

Revenue

Man in his 50s arrested at Dublin Port after gardaí seize 40 kg of suspected cocaine

23 Sep 2024

12.4k

Dublin District Court

Former Ireland footballer Anthony Stokes pleads guilty to cocaine possession and drunk driving

20 Sep 2024

19.0k

Courts

Four men appear in Wexford court charged over 100kg cocaine haul worth €7 million

18 Sep 2024

23.1k

Thailand

Revenues find €1.5 million worth of cannabis and cocaine in separate seizures in Dublin Airport

6 Sep 2024

9.5k

Cork

Three arrested as €260,000 worth of drugs seized in Co Cork

17 Aug 2024

10.6k

harm reduction

People warned that very potent MDMA will be in circulation at Electric Picnic

15 Aug 2024

12.7k

Cocaine

Irish man arrested in Peru was allegedly involved in operation to ship drugs back to Europe

14 Aug 2024

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Drugs

'Significant' increase in wholesale price of cocaine in Ireland since last year

14 Aug 2024

12.4k

Revenue

Cocaine worth €10.5 million seized at Dublin Port

13 Aug 2024

11.5k

Drug smuggling

Seizure of €7.2m in suspected cocaine and two men arrested at Rosslare Europort

11 Aug 2024

10.3k

operation tara

Man charged and almost half a million euro of suspected drugs seized in Limerick raids

Updated 2 Aug 2024

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Foynes

Man pleads guilty to possession of €21.6 million worth of cocaine found on ship in Limerick

26 Jul 2024

16.9k

Courts

Man (33) in court over €3m cocaine seizure in Clondalkin

11 Jul 2024

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