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North Tipperary Gardaí Appealing For Information Relating To House Burglaries.

Tipperary Gardaí are appealing for information in relation to three house burglaries.

The break-ins occurred in the Lorrha – Rathcabbin area of North Tipperary over recent days, just last month.

Nenagh Gardaí have confirmed that a burglary occurred at a house near Grange Lorrha, on October 22nd last. The incident happened, during the day, sometime before 5:00pm.
Another house at Lelagh, Rathcabbin was also burglarised, between the 28nd and 29th of October last.

A third burglary took place also in Lorrha possibly on the evening of October 28th, sometime between 6:00pm and 8:00pm, during which we understand a small amount of cash was removed during the incident.

Anyone in the vicinity who may have noticed any unusual movements in these areas are asked to contact Nenagh Gardaí on Tel: 067 31333 or indeed any Garda Station.

New Criminal Offences & Tougher Sentencing Came Into Effect In Irish Republic Today.

A range of new criminal offences, as well as tougher sentences for existing offences, come into effect from today, November 1st 2023.

These offences include measures targeting violent and organised crime, violence against Gardaí and other emergency service workers, together with landmark measures to support victims and punish perpetrators of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence.

These new laws and tougher sentences mark a milestone in efforts to build stronger, safer communities and demonstrate zero Tolerance of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence.

From today, under the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2023:

The maximum sentence for assault causing harm, a common offence in domestic abuse cases as well as in other assaults, increases from five years to ten years.
The scope of the existing harassment offence is widened to include any conduct that seriously interferes with a person’s peace and privacy, or causes alarm, distress or harm.
A new standalone offence of stalking, with a maximum sentence of up to ten years, is created and now in effect.
A standalone offence of non-fatal strangulation or non-fatal suffocation with a maximum sentence of up to ten years, and a standalone offence of non-fatal strangulation or non-fatal suffocation causing serious harm with a maximum sentence of up to life imprisonment, often indicators of further, potentially lethal violence against a woman, are created and in effect.
The maximum sentence for assaulting or threatening to assault a Garda or other on duty emergency workers increases from 7 to 12 years.
The maximum sentence for conspiracy to murder increases from the current penalty of 10 years to life imprisonment to further toughen the laws around gangland crime.

The Act also introduces a range of provisions that will provide better protection for Gardaí and strengthen the laws designed to tackle serious and organised crime.

These include:

Increasing the maximum sentence for assaulting or threatening to assault a police officer from 7 to 12 years. The increase in maximum sentence will apply where the assault in question is against an on duty Garda or emergency service worker, such as hospital staff, prison officers, members of the fire brigade, ambulance personnel or members of the Defence Forces.
Increasing the maximum sentence for conspiracy to murder from the current penalty of 10 years to life imprisonment. The maximum sentence for conspiracy to murder has been set at 10 years since 1861. It is used when two or more people form a plan to murder another person but are stopped before they can carry it out.

Annual Report Of Criminal Assets Bureau Published.

An Biúró um Shócmhainní Coiriúla Tuarascáil Bhliantúil – Criminal Assets Bureau Annual Report.

The Annual Report of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) for the year 2022 has now been published. Same which can be found published HERE.

During 2022, the Bureau focused on all crimes which involved wealth acquisition and returned to the Irish Exchequer in excess of €6.3m million.

CAB seizures included cash, property assets, luxury cars, watches (including Rolex, Breitling and Hublot), together with items of clothing (Christine Louboutin shoes and Louis Vuitton bags). Further details can be found in the annual report.

In total, for the year 2022, the Bureau denied and deprived criminals of their ill-gotten gains to the sum of €6.359 million, and the value of assets under the new proceeds of crime cases commenced by the Bureau ranged in value from €9,718 to €1,948,147.

Internationally, the Bureau continued to liaise and conduct investigations with law enforcement and judicial authorities, throughout Europe and worldwide.

This included extensive cooperation with law enforcement agencies in Northern Ireland, including the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the National Crime Agency (NCA).

The 2022 Annual Report evidences the hard work and dedication of Chief Bureau Officer Mr Mick Gubbins and all of the staff and agencies involved in CAB.
Between the years 1996 and 2022, CAB has denied and deprived criminals of over €210 million worth of assets that have been returned to the Exchequer.
Of this, €35.5 million came under the ‘proceeds of crime legislation’, €169 million was from Revenue collections and over €5.8 million from Social Welfare recoveries.

In 2021 the Community Safety Innovation Fund, which reinvests proceeds of crime, same returned to the Exchequer by CAB, was returned back into communities, thus funding innovative local projects and building stronger and safer communities.

Local Divisional Asset Gardaí Profilers, trained by CAB, played an important role in every Garda division, provided information to CAB; becoming the eyes and ears of the Bureau while providing a vauable increased reach to all areas of this island.

An additional 37 Divisional Asset Profilers were trained in 2022, and extra training was provided for 130 existing Divisional Asset Profilers. At the end of 2022 the total number of Divisional Asset Profilers stood at 572 nationwide. In 2023 the number of Divisional Asset Profilers reached its highest level ever, in the organisations history, with over 600 Profilers.

In 2022 this total number included: 545 Gardaí; 19 Officers of the Revenue Commissioners engaged in Customs and Excise duties; and 8 Officers of the Department of Social Protection.

Initiative On Law Against Female Genital Mutilation Taking Place In Dublin Airport.

A two day awareness campaign, raising initiative on law against female genital mutilation is to taking place in Dublin airport this weekend.

An Garda Síochána and the Border Management Unit at Dublin airport will this weekend run ‘Operation Limelight’ to raise awareness around the practice of Female Genital Mutilation in Ireland, including the law and the very serious risks to the long-term health of women and girls, subjected to it.

Operation Limelight originated in the UK and similar initiatives have been implemented in other countries including Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States.

The two day initiative will run on today Friday October 27th and tomorrow Saturday October 28th. in an effort to reach high passenger numbers travelling for the bank holiday weekend.

Members of An Garda Síochána and the Border Management Unit will provide information to passengers travelling to and from Dublin Airport, which will explain what FGM is, outline the law in Ireland, and inform people what they can do if they are worried that a girl may be at risk of FGM.

FGM (also known as circumcision or cutting) involves removing all or part of a girl’s external genital organs including the area around the vagina and clitoris. FGM is performed for cultural and not medical reasons and is totally illegal in Ireland.

Under the Criminal Justice (Female Genital Mutilation) Act 2012 it is a criminal offence for a person to attempt or perform FGM in Ireland and it is a criminal offence for someone resident in Ireland to take a girl to another country to undergo FGM.

FGM is mostly carried out on girls between birth and 15 years of age and it is a form of child abuse which comes under child protection regulations in the Children First National Guidance for the Protection and Welfare of Children 2011.

It has also been recognised as a form of gender-based violence in the Third National Strategy on Domestic Sexual and Gender Based Violence and the current implementation plan for the Strategy contains actions focused on improving the supports and services available to those who have been subjected to FGM.

FGM violates a series of well-established human rights principles, including the principles of equality and non-discrimination on the basis of sex, the right to life when the procedure results in death, and the right to freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, as well as the rights of the child.

Barbaric Sacrifice Of Harmless Animal In St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Thurles, Reiterated.

**Image of whippet/greyhound killing caged Hare in St. Patrick’s cemetery Thurles, Co. Tipperary**.

On July 25th 2023 last, Thurles.Info, together with the Mail On Sunday Newspaper, posted a story stating that local people had expressed anger over the fact that Thurles Municipal District Authorities were failing to introduce or indeed implement bye-laws.
Same story related to the barbaric sacrifice of a gentle, harmless, trapped, live Hare; all of which was permitted to occur in St. Patrick’s Graveyard, Moyne Road, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.
A video posted on social media and shown HERE, has already been viewed, much to the embarrassment of Thurles residents, on almost 75,000 occasions.

Garda at Thurles, having been made aware of the barbaric incident, which actually took place during a funeral service; and having viewed the social media video; undertook a criminal investigation into the issue.

This morning in St. Patricks Graveyard, the image now shown above, which met those visiting the final resting place of their loved ones, were appalled to view a 50.8cm x 76.2cm (20in x 30in) image of a greyhound sniffing a dead hare, which had been sacrificed as part of this funeral ceremony; during which, also, saw large quantities of alcohol consumed, as evidenced by the large amount of discarded bottles and cans left strewn about, for cemetery employees clean up and remove.

It would appear that the image together with a large amount of discarded wreaths was deliberately thrown in an area that would attract most attention and not in the area provided.

About time now that large plastic litter bins were positioned around this graveyard to dispose of waste matter, as is provided in other properly run graveyards.

Once again, we ask the Question; “What are we getting in return for increasingly rising Property Tax”.
It certainly is not being used in Thurles to fill potholes.