A Belfast woman accused over an alleged attempt to import cannabis has been banned from going within three miles of her home address.

Read more...

The campaign against the Public Assemblies Bill is gathering pace, the closer we get to the end of the consultation period. The campaign has organized a major march and rally to take place on the 26th June 2010.

We already know that the proposals are an outrage. If this draft bill did become law, we would have the most draconian legislation in the whole of Europe regarding the right to free assembly and the right to protest. We are not going to allow that to happen. The 26th June is our opportunity to make that clear to the Assembly. We need to make the 26th June as big as possible.

Read more...

Chinese women are being trafficked into Ireland to work on cannabis farms. They are alongside other illegal Chinese and Vietnamese who have arrived here through Europe.

Six Chinese were caught at Dublin Airport, without documentation, apparently having flown in from Spain last week.

Read more...

A Belfast Giants ice hockey player is facing drugs charges after being indicted by a New York grand jury.

Sean McMorrow, 28, is accused of bringing 100kgs of "a substance containing marijuana" into the US from Canada with intent to distribute.

The offences allegedly took place between 2003 and 2005. It is understood the player is still in Belfast.

Read more...

REAL IRA activist Ciaran Doherty was shot dead by his fellow terrorists because they suspected he had supplied information which led to the garda seizure of a cannabis factory in Co Donegal last month.

Doherty (31) was shot in the head and chest and his semi-naked body, with his hands tied together, was left on the outskirts of Derry city, close to the border with Donegal.

Read more...