{"id":273274,"date":"2026-01-08T01:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/273274\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T01:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:51:11","slug":"cork-gardai-seize-e280k-worth-of-cocaine-in-car-on-m8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/273274\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork garda\u00ed seize \u20ac280k worth of cocaine in car on M8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The seizure of a \u20ac280,000 stash of cocaine in a car on the M8 motorway at Riverstown, Glanmire, last August, resulted in a 31-year-old woman signing a plea of guilty to drugs charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ellen Tobin of 179 Comeragh Park, The Glen, Cork, admitted offences, the most serious of which was possession of drugs for sale or supply at a time when its value exceeded \u20ac13,000, the threshold which allows for a minimum sentence of ten years, unless there are exceptional circumstances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On the application of Sergeant Gear\u00f3id Davis at Cork District Court, Judge Catherine Ryan sent the case forward to the sessions of Cork Circuit Criminal Court for sentencing on February 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The case against the defendant relates to a drug detection by garda\u00ed on August 11, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ms Tobin was represented in court by solicitor Diarmuid Kelleher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The seizure of a \u20ac280,000 stash of cocaine in a car on the M8 motorway at Riverstown, Glanmire,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[781,9,10,2013,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-273274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-cork-court","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115856977619859708","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273274","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=273274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}