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Search Warrant Uncovers Cash, Heroin & Cannabis In Tipperary.

Over the past weekend, members of the Clonmel District Drugs Unit, Community Policing, Detective and Regular Garda Units using a Warrant, carried out a search on an address at Cooleens Close, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

During the course of this search heroin with an estimated street value of €800 was seized together with a small amount of cannabis, cash and other paraphernalia associated with the distribution/supply of drugs.

A man understood to be aged in his 40’s was arrested at the scene, before being detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 at Clonmel.

A file is now expected to be forwarded to the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

Remembering Tipperary People Killed In Dublin Bombings.

Here in Co. Tipperary, we remember two victims of the Dublin bombings; both murdered in the city, forty seven years ago today.

In Dublin city three car bombs were detonated without warning, during rush hour on the 17th of May 1974.

The first victim, Miss Breda Turner, then aged just 21, was working in the Office of the Revenue Commissioners; the primary State Body responsible for the assessment and collection of taxes and other duties, here in the Republic of Ireland. Originally from Thurles, in Co. Tipperary, she had moved to Dublin and was engaged to be married on the following Easter.

Ms Turner sadly was murdered in the Parnell Street explosion. (See second picture above).

The second victim was Mrs Maureen Shields, aged 46, originally from the village of Hollyford, Co. Tipperary. Mrs Shields had moved to Dublin, where she worked in the Civil Service, until her marriage to husband Leo in 1953. The couple had one son and two daughters.

Mrs Shields, sadly, was murdered in the Talbot Street explosion. (See first picture above).

While the Dublin bombings, in 1974, were the biggest mass murder in the history of the Irish State, no one person has ever been charged with these crimes.

The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a loyalist paramilitary group from Northern Ireland, claimed responsibility for the bombings in 1993.

Former Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman, Baroness Nuala O’Loan (Member of House of Lords of the United Kingdom), found that Special Branch officers gave the killers immunity and ensured that the murderers were never brought to justice.

It is at this time that we also remember Mr George Bradshaw, a Tipperary victim of the Dublin bombing of the 1st of December 1972.

Mr Bradshaw, aged just 30 years, was a bus conductor from Fethard, in Co. Tipperary; one of two male victims who died when a car bomb exploded at Sackville Place, Dublin at approximately 8.15pm on that fateful day. Both victims were bus drivers with CIE and brutally murdered, having just left the nearby CIE Workers’ Club.

Mr Bradshaw had only moved to Dublin less than two years previously. Married to wife Kathleen, a nurse from Belfast; both then parents to two young children, Lynn and Rory.

In a statement today, the Government said is was fully committed to seeking out the truth behind those events and, hopefully, to secure some measure of comfort for the victim’s families and the survivors.

They further stated they would continue to develop and establish effective ways to address the legacy of the troubles, including implementation of measures agreed in the Stormont House Agreement, so as to meet the legitimate needs and expectations of all victims and survivors.

€30,000 Cannabis & €6K Cash Seized In Co. Tipperary.

Last night Cahir District Drug Unit, accompanied by the Garda Dog Unit, carried out a search on a premises in Cahir Town.

An Garda Siochana revealed that their search warrent, followed a lengthy surveillance operation.

Gardaí, during this search, seized approx €30,000 worth of Cannabis Herb, €6.000 in cash together with weighing scales and other drug dealing paraphernalia.

A male was arrested at the scene and is currently in custody.

Missing A Bicycle?

Almost 200 recovered bicycles remain unclaimed in Garda Stations nationwide.

Photos of bicycles which have been recovered by Gardaí, but are not yet returned to their owners are now available to view hereunder, categorised under each Garda Division, together with full details which allows for the owners to claim the return of their bicycle.

For County Tipperary Division – Click for pdf HERE.

For All bikes – Nationwide – Click for pdf HERE

High Court Approves Personal Insolvency Arrangement For Thurles Woman

The High Court today approved the Personal Insolvency Arrangement (PIA) that will see a 54-year-old female, single, shop assistant continue to make mortgage repayments on her family home until she is 90 years of age.

Mr Justice Mark Sanfey approved the PIA in respect of Ms Esther Kirwan, Moycarkey, Thurles, Co Tipperary, in what is regarded as an important test case in the area of personal insolvency.

The court heard Ms Kirwan, who resides alone in a three-bedroom bungalow, has debts of €108,000. Of this debt, some €83,000 is owed to Start Mortgages in respect of the mortgage on her home, currently valued at €145,000. The remainder is owed to Allied Irish Bank for loans advanced to her former business and the Revenue Commissioners.

Under the terms of the PIA her mortgage will be restructured, but is not being reduced. She will make monthly payments of €214 for the next 420 months (35 years) to cover the interest on her mortgage, meaning she will continue to make payments until she is 90 years of age.

Should she die before reaching that age, the balance of what is owed to Start Mortgages will be paid from the proceeds of the sale of her estate.

Under the PIA the loan will be payable on the expiry of the 420-month term or on her death, whichever occurs first.

Last year the Circuit Court refused to approve Ms Kirwan’s proposed PIA because it was uncomfortable with the possibility Ms Kirwan might be compelled to sell her home to satisfy a mortgage debt.