Drugs
Yesterday
26th March 2025
Drug smugglingMultiple arrests made in operation targetting transport of drugs from Spain to Ireland
Last week
16th March 2025 - 22nd March 2025
This month
March 2025
Garda OperationGardaí arrest two men and seize nearly €2m worth of cocaine and cannabis in Dublin and Louth
Last month
February 2025
De Verdon Place
Residents 'trapped' as new Dublin housing development is 'destroyed' by drug use and vandalism
“Teenagers are threatening residents, kicking apartment doors, and engaging in theft and vandalism.”
Special Criminal CourtFour men plead guilty to transporting over two tonnes of cocaine on MV Matthew ship
January
January 2025
CourtsBulgarian man pleads guilty to possessing €21 million cocaine haul smuggled into Limerick port
Organised CrimeGardaí believe drugs shipment may be floating in sea off Kerry after botched smuggling drop-off
operation taraMan arrested after gardaí seize over €120,000 worth of cocaine and cannabis in Wicklow
Last year
2024
the morning lead
Ireland’s first medically supervised injection centre to open, nine years after it was approved
Service users said they have been “treated like lepers” but will finally have a safe, non-judgemental place to go, Eddie Mullins told us.
The MSIF was first proposed at Cabinet nine years ago, almost to the day, on 15 December 2015
Plans for the facility were beset with objections, but it will finally open in the coming days
Dublin's inner city has been "ravaged by addiction and drug use over many, many years", MQI CEO Eddie Mullins said
drug safety'This will save lives' - Ireland's first supervised drug injection centre to open this December
old youghal roadSoldier charged over cocaine found in barracks must wait until next year for DPP directions
SaggartTeen charged with gun possession released despite ‘concern’ for others as detention centre full
flaming packages
Drones with 'flaming packages' being used to burn through prison nets and deliver drugs
The drones are flown from nearby roads and fields with the burning package carried beneath the remote-controlled craft.
