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Gardaí Warning On Covid-19 Text Messages scam.

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Gardaí have issued warnings regarding recent text message scams which involves Covid tests and vaccine appointments.

The messages purport to have originated from Health Service Executive (HSE) staff and advise the public to book an early appointment for a Covid-19 test through a link highlighted within the text message.

The Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (GNECB) are warning the public that once the recipients click on the highlighted link they will be brought to a cloned website where the fraudsters will seek personal information, including PPS numbers and a payment for Covid-19 tests or vaccinations.

In most instances the supplied links look very similar to the authentic HSE URL but may be misspelled.

Gardaí wish the public to understand fully that the HSE will never look for payment for Covid-19 tests or vaccinations and the public should be wary of replying to such text messages.

Bench Warrant For Arrest of UCD Professor, Dolores Cahill.

We first wrote about Dolores Cahill on Thurles.info when she failed to remove election posters, in the Thurles area, thus constituting an offence under section 19 of the Irish Litter Pollution Act 1997 and the Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2009.

Election poster at Monakeeba, Thurles, Co.Tipperary. Photograph G.Willoughby.

See also Link: Political Poster At Monakeeba, Thurles, Co. Tipperary Survives “Storm Ellen”.

Then Irish Freedom Party chairperson Dolores Cahill came second-last in the Tipperary constituency with just 0.6% or 521 first preference votes

By the time the posters were eventually removed Dolores Cahill owed Tipperary County Council an estimated €10,250 under this same Litter Pollution Act of 1997 and the Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2009. Whether they ever collected their outstanding debt we cannot confirm.

Arrest Warrant Issued For Dolores Cahill.

Now we are aware that on August 10th last, a warrant was issued for Dolores Cahill’s arrest.

The bench warrant for the arrest of Dolores Cahill, a UCD Professor, has been issued in London, for her failure to turn up to a number of scheduled court hearings.

The misinformed and prominent Covid sceptic and anti-vaccination campaigner, now facing charges arising out of an alleged illegal rally, involving more than 30 people, held in Trafalgar Square, London in September of last year.

The initial hearing was held on June 16th last, at Westminster Magistrates Court. She was not required to attend on that particular hearing date in person, but she was invited to submit a plea, which she failed to provide.

Cahill then gave her address as care of the Irish Freedom Party, Kandoy House, 2 Fairview Strand, Dublin 3; latter (for the benefit of our overseas readers), is a very minor right-wing hard, Eurosceptic, political party, which has reared its head here in Ireland to no great a following.

Cahill failed to appear before a court hearing on July 3rd last. She again failed to appear at a hearing on July 20th and at her latest hearing scheduled on August 10th last. It was at this hearing that a warrant was issued for her immediate arrest. Her case has now been adjourned until September 10th next.

Cahill was forced to resigned her post as Irish Freedom Party chairperson, following a speech, which she gave at an anti-lock down rally in Herbert Park in Co. Dublin on St. Patrick’s Day. It was here that she stated that children who wore face masks were being “starved” of oxygen and would end up having a lower IQ. Cahill had stated, “Wake up parents. Oxygen is required for your brain to function and I am saying to the children and teenagers of the world; to their parents and teachers; that the individual ministers and prime ministers across the world have failed you. The reason that the globalists are pulling down the masks is that oxygen-deprived people are easier to manipulate. If the police stopped doing criminal and unlawful behaviour, this thing would be over. If everybody just stopped wearing masks, this (the Covid-19 pandemic) would be over .”

Last month outside the Dublin Bay South by-election count centre, (Video Above) Cahill was denied entry for failing and refusing to wear a mask. Cahill who was running as an Independent candidate, claimed she had an “inalienable right” to bodily integrity and therefore was not required to wear a mask.

A leaflet released by Cahill ahead of the recent Dublin Bay South by-election made a number of ill-informed and grossly misleading claims about Covid-19 vaccines. In same leaflet, Cahill claimed that mRNA vaccines “have never been approved” and also made a misleading claim about deaths associated with vaccine clinical trials. Same saw her, as expected, eliminated on the third count, with a meagre 179 votes.

The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors described Cahill’s tyrade on Gardaí; latter who were on security duty at the Dublin Bay South count centre, as simply “abhorrent”, when she claimed that by refusing to allow her to enter the count centre, was the equivalent of being “raped”.

Why the Irish authorities have failed to arrest Cahill, who has behaved similarly with regards to unlawful assemblies here in Ireland, remains, to the vast majority of Irish law-abiding citizens, a total mystery.

Gardaí Seek Your Immediate Help.

Image Courtesy An Garda Síochána, Tipperary.

Gardaí, covering the Clonmel area of Co. Tipperary, are appealing for immediate assistance from the public, in relation to the theft of 4 different Catalytic Converters stolen from vehicles in the the areas of Clonmel, Drangan and Cloneen, between the 10th and 11th of August 2021 last.

It is believed that 4 male individuals travelling in a Blue Skoda Octavia (sports type) may have been involved in these 4 thefts.

Gardaí, today, are appealing to people with CCTV or Dashcam footage to make contact with them on Tel: 052 6177640.
Clonmel Gardaí are also appealing for people to be vigilant of their property and that of their community and to report immediately any suspicious activity to your local Garda Station.

€900K Stolen From Students In Rental Fraud Incidents.

An Garda Síochána are advising students and parents in Co. Tipperary and elsewhere, to be aware of rental accommodation scams, especially at this time of year, as students are preparing to return to college. A known €900,000 has been stolen in rental scams over the past 3 years; same transactions which become almost impossible to trace .

Due mainly to Covid-19 restrictions, accommodation frauds have declined over the past 15 months, however Gardaí are once again highlighting such incidents of fraud which could affect not just a new generation of third level students seeking accommodation, but also the lives of those already established within our education system.

Gardaí highlight a total of 503 cases of rental fraud, reported between February 1st, 2019 and May 31st, 2021; of which just 50% occurred in the Dublin city area.

Some 42% of all the injured parties were under the age of 25 years, while some 72% were under the age of 35 years.

Gardaí are asking those in search of rented accommodation to be wary especially if a website or other advertising agency is asking prospective tenants to send money to a random PayPal address, wire same via Western Union, pay in gift cards or in cryptocurrency; since the latter methods are used to avoid detection thus ensuring that such transaction can never be reversed.

Drugs – Some Destined for Tipperary – Seized At Dublin Postal Sorting Centre.

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool Bailey, Sam and Flynn”. With apologies to President Abraham Lincoln

Drug detector dog “Bailey”

Drug parcels with street value contents estimated at some €108,000; some of which were intended for Co. Tipperary, have now been seized by Revenue officers at a Dublin Mail Centre.

Following a routine operation yesterday, some 5.3kgs of herbal cannabis, almost 270g of cannabis oil , together with butane honey oil (Latter a relatively new method of administering or ingesting cannabis, known in the trade as ‘Dabs’, ‘Shatter’, or ‘Wax Butter’ ) and 450g of cannabis edibles, (e.g. Infused Chocolate, Jelly Gummies, Nut Butter etc), were located by Revenue detector dog “Bailey”.

The seizures announced today are part of Revenue’s ongoing operations targeting the importation of illegal drugs.

The illegal drugs were located we understand in 21 separately, mailed packages that originated initially in Spain, United Kingdom and the USA.

These parcels had been declared as containing items such as ‘Pillows’, ‘Toys’, ‘Sports Shoes’, ‘Custom Stationary’ and ‘Wine Tubs’.

The parcels were destined for delivery in Tipperary, Clare, Dublin, Wicklow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Clare, Kerry, Leitrim, Antrim, as well as to overseas destinations.

Further investigations are continuing.

Heroin seized at Rosslare Europort, Co Wexford.

Meanwhile, some 88kg of heroin, worth over €12 million, has been seized at Rosslare Europort in Co Wexford. Again Revenue officers detected the drugs yesterday afternoon, as part of an intelligence-led operation, aided by detector dogs ‘Sam’ and ‘Flynn’.

The discovery was made when a truck and low-loader trailer was stopped and searched, after it arriving into the Wexford port from mainland Europe.