{"id":137386,"date":"2025-10-22T02:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/137386\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T02:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:51:12","slug":"man-70s-arrested-as-herbal-cannabis-worth-e114k-is-seized-in-tallaght-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/137386\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (70s) arrested as herbal cannabis worth \u20ac114k is seized in Tallaght, Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>weed bust\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-ebe0ecc6_root sw-ebe0ecc6_paragraph sw-91174671_system sw-66f0fec7_medium sw-1d70522a_marginbottom4 sw-1d70522a_marginleft0 sw-1d70522a_marginright0 sw-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Gardai say the approximately 5.7kgs of herbal cannabis was seized as part of intelligence-led operations\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\".\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9157c348-0d24-4284-ba67-df71e76321f4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-ebe0ecc6_root sw-ebe0ecc6_caption1 sw-300db776_none sw-91174671_system sw-66f0fec7_regular sw-1d70522a_marginbottom3 sw-1d70522a_marginleft0 sw-1d70522a_marginright0 sw-1d70522a_margintop3 sw-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-70)\">.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-ebe0ecc6_root sw-ebe0ecc6_paragraph sw-300db776_none sw-91174671_system sw-66f0fec7_regular sw-1d70522a_marginbottom0 sw-1d70522a_margintop0 sw-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-black-base)\">A man in his 70s has been arrested by gardai after herbal cannabis worth an estimated \u20ac114,000 was seized by Revenue officers in Tallaght, Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-ebe0ecc6_root sw-ebe0ecc6_paragraph sw-300db776_none sw-91174671_system sw-1d70522a_marginbottom5 sw-1d70522a_margintop0 sw-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-black-base)\">Gardai say the approximately 5.7 kgs of herbal cannabis was seized as part of intelligence-led operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-ebe0ecc6_root sw-ebe0ecc6_paragraph sw-300db776_none sw-91174671_system sw-1d70522a_marginbottom5 sw-1d70522a_margintop0 sw-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-black-base)\">\u201cThis seizure was made as a result of a joint operation conducted in the Dublin area by the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau (GNDOCB), the Tallaght District Drugs Unit and Revenue\u2019s Customs Service,\u201d a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\".\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9157c348-0d24-4284-ba67-df71e76321f4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-ebe0ecc6_root sw-ebe0ecc6_caption1 sw-300db776_none sw-91174671_system sw-66f0fec7_regular sw-1d70522a_marginbottom3 sw-1d70522a_marginleft0 sw-1d70522a_marginright0 sw-1d70522a_margintop3 sw-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-70)\">.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-ebe0ecc6_root sw-ebe0ecc6_caption1 sw-300db776_none sw-91174671_system sw-66f0fec7_regular sw-1d70522a_marginbottom3 sw-1d70522a_marginleft0 sw-1d70522a_marginright0 sw-1d70522a_margintop3 sw-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-70)\">News in 90 Seconds &#8211; October 21st <\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-ebe0ecc6_root sw-ebe0ecc6_paragraph sw-300db776_none sw-91174671_system sw-1d70522a_marginbottom5 sw-1d70522a_margintop0 sw-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-black-base)\">\u201cOne male (aged in his 70s) was arrested by An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na and is currently detained at a Garda Station in Dublin under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-ebe0ecc6_root sw-ebe0ecc6_paragraph sw-300db776_none sw-91174671_system sw-1d70522a_marginbottom5 sw-1d70522a_margintop0 sw-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-black-base)\">Garda\u00ed added that investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"weed bust\u00a0|\u00a0 Gardai say the approximately 5.7kgs of herbal cannabis was seized as part of intelligence-led operations .&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-137386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}