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International police join forces to disrupt world's biggest cocaine highway that branches into Ireland
Cocaine
The smuggling route sees thousands of kilos sent from South America to Europe - the world’s most lucrative cocaine market - every single year
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Romanian man, 23, charged with smuggling two people through Rosslare Europort
Courts
The truck driver was arrested by gardaí in Wexford on Friday morning after two men were found hiding in his vehicle
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Over €340m worth of illicit cigarettes and tobacco seized by Revenue since 2020
Revenue
An average of 17 seizures were made every day in the past five years, new figures have revealed
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Young mum jailed for trying to smuggle boyfriend through Dublin Airport - while he walked free
Dublin Airport
The Polish mother of two tried to smuggle her boyfriend through the airport with a fake passport - he walked free to apply for international protection
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Number of illegal cigarettes in Ireland hits 10 year high as one in five packs smuggled in
Counterfeit cigarettes
Revenue estimated the potential loss to the Exchequer from the consumption of 32.9 million illegal cigarette packs last year is approximately €422 million
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Man arrested after detector dog James alerts authorities to hidden cannabis worth €1.1m at Dublin Port
Drugs seizures
The 55.3kg stash was discovered in a van coming from the UK when detector dog James alerted Revenue officers to the drugs
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Most cocaine for northern Europe shipped through Irish waters as cartels see Ireland as weak link
Drugs seizures
A former Garda assistant commissioner told the Irish Mirror that drug lords know the Irish Navy is struggling to patrol the country's waters
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Mo Farah says gruelling track ordeals nothing compared to child trafficking nightmare
Mo Farah
In a TV documentary earlier this year the Olympic runner disclosed he was smuggled into Britain from Somalia and treated like a servant by the people with whom he first lived
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Man who smuggled people to Ireland for €10k each unmasked as mobster who used prostitutes but stole groceries
Smuggling
Exclusive: The Irish Mirror today unveils the sophisticated people smuggling scheme run by asylum seeker Ndricim Qema, who was living in Direct Provision before being jailed for five years this week.
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Revenue seize 31.2m illegal cigarettes in the first half of 2020
Smuggling
It's five times more than the same period last year
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Revenue detector dog Eva sniffs out €44k worth of illicit tobacco at Cork Airport
Smuggling
The smuggled tobacco was discovered in the checked baggage of three Irish nationals who had disembarked a flight from Alicante
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Revenue seize smuggled cigarettes worth over €91,000 at Dublin Port
Revenue
The cigarettes were concealed behind air conditioning fan fittings and hidden in a container
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Harry Potter star Miriam Margoyles' clifftop cottage 'used as cocaine drop-off'
Smuggling
Actress Miriam Margoyles' clifftop cottage near Dover was at the centre of a sophisticated Class A drug-smuggling operation
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Young model weeps as she's jailed for trying to smuggle €1.3million of heroin into Ireland
Courts
She broke down in tears as the judge sentenced her
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Revenue seize 24,000 litres of smuggled alcohol at Dublin Port
Revenue
Revenue officers discover over €100k worth of smuggled alcohol
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Customs officers swoop on 'puppy smuggler' at Dublin Port
Dublin Port
Eight young hounds were found in a van driven by a man from the UK who was attempting to board a ferry
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Someone held up a 'Wenger OUT' sign behind Jeremy Corbyn as he made a speech
Jeremy Corbyn
A pair of cheeky pranksters smuggled the hand-scrawled sign into the background of the Labour leader's speech in Royal Leamington Spa, this afternoon
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Two of the men arrested over suspected immigrant smuggling operation were Aer Lingus employees from outside Ireland
Smuggling
It is understood that immigrants being brought into Ireland were taken off Aer Lingus planes and put into catering trucks
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West of Ireland 'dangerously under-resourced' to combat drug smugglers according to TD
Drugs
Fine Gael's Tony McLoughlin has cited places such as Killybegs Harbour and Knock Airport as lacking in resources
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She may be of the world's most beautiful women - but Ola Jordan reckons that she's 'insecure about her looks'
I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here
Strictly star says she is 'not the most confident women in the world' - but still plans to smuggle six bikinis into I'm A Celebrity jungle
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Michael Douglas' son Cameron released from prison after seven years behind bars
Michael Douglas
The actor was sentenced to five years for possession of heroin but was extended after he confessed to smuggling drugs into prison
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Ex-World's Strongest Man threatens refugees hiding in his lorries with a baseball bat in chilling post
Weird News
Pole Mariusz Pudzianowski issued the threat after his company was fined £40,000 for unwittingly allowing eight refugees to smuggle themselves on board a Britain-bound truck at Calais
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Drugs bunny! Smugglers caught disguising one tonne of marijuana as fake carrots
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The haul was found by police at the US-Mexico border when they brought a canine drugs team out to sniff the cargo
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Man disguises 48,000 beer cans as Pepsi - but gets rumbled by police
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The man was caught when he tried to cross the Saudi Arabia border - where alcohol is banned
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