Cannabis plants seized in Dublin raids

Thursday, 29 July 2010 23:59

Two cannabis factories growing 900 plants with elaborate equipment have been discovered hidden in separate houses.

Cannabis activist Luke 'Ming' Flanagan to become mayor of Roscommon town

Friday, 25 June 2010 10:44

A COUNCILLOR who shot to prominence by campaigning for the legalisation of cannabis is to become the new mayor of Roscommon town.

Luke 'Ming' Flanagan (independent), who represents Castlerea on Roscommon County Council, is the agreed candidate of a new coalition of councillors which has scuppered the Fianna Fail stranglehold on the council.

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A Kilbarrack businessman pleads guilty to possessing cannabis

Tuesday, 13 April 2010 18:15

A businessman who stored over €50,000 worth of cannabis to pay off debts from his cocaine use and his business partner's gambling has received an eight year sentence with two suspended.

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Forty kilos of weed caught in Dublin

Monday, 22 March 2010 14:35

Two people arrested connection with the seizure of cannabis worth an estimated €480,000 in Dublin yesterday are due in court on Monday.

Some 40 kilos of cannabis herb were discovered during a raid by officers from the Organised Crime Unit, the Garda National Drug Unit and Ronanstown Drug Unit in Rosewood Grove, Lucan yesterday evening.

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South African man sentenced to 7 years for possessing cannabis

Monday, 22 March 2010 14:23

A MAN has received a seven-year prison sentence after a jury earlier this week found him guilty of having more than €134,000 worth of cannabis in October 2006.

The drugs were in a box from Pretoria, South Africa, marked books and printed matter which was intercepted by Customs. Kerry gardaí carried out a sting operation, the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee heard.

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