News from around the 32 counties of Ireland

Senior Garda (police) detectives believe the discovery of over €10,000 worth of cannabis plants found in separate searches in Granard and Edgeworthstown are linked.

Last Tuesday evening, officers from the Divisional Drugs Unit based in Roscommon seized an estimated €6,000 of cannabis plants from a house in Edgeworthstown’s Devine Crescent estate.

No arrests have been made, although gardai are said to be following a definite line of inquiry. Garda sources have intimated to longfordleader.ie those at the centre of the probe are local with arrests expected to be made over the coming days.

Described as an “ongoing surveillance operation”, this website can reveal gardai are linking the haul to a similar seizure made in Granard just over a week ago.

On that occasion, drugs officers recovered €4,500 of cannabis plants following a planned search of a house in Granada Drive. A man has since been arrested and is presently helping gardai with their inquiries.
(Source: Longford Leader)

Louth

Three County Louth businesses made tax settlements of over Euro 130,000 after being named on the latest tax defaulters list by the Revenue Commissioners last week.

In their report from January 1 to March 31 2011, the Revenue Commissioners accepted 78 settlements nationwide with three from Louth totalling e131,995.66 of the overall total of e15.5 million.

Thomas Agnew, with an address at Courtbane, Hackballscross, Dundalk had the highest settlement of the three. Outstanding tax of e23,410 plus interest and penalties of e32,023 meant that the farmer, company director and property developer made a total settlement of e55,433 for underdeclaration of income tax following a Revenue off shore asset investigation case.

Meanwhile, Thomas Agnew and Sons Ltd building surveyors, with an address at 71A Anne Street, Dundalk also made a settlement of e23,908, comprising e7,628 in tax and e16,280 in interest for an underdeclaration of VAT following a Revenue off shore assets investigation case.

Also making a settlement was Mid-Louth take-away owner Chuen Fu Cheung, with an address at Bridge Street Ardee. Mr Cheung made a settlement of e52,654.66 in total, comprising tax of e26,807.32 and interest and penalties of e25,847.34 for an underdeclaration of VAT and PAYE/PRSI.
Eight further people or businesses from the county also received fines, totalling e12,900 – the vast majority of which were for failure to lodge income tax returns.
(Source: Dundalk Democrat)

Mayo

He – or is it she? – is one millionaire who will not have to worry about NAMA or share collapses at our big and broke banking institutions. Undoubtedly, Westport’s mystery millionaire is today sporting a smile broader than a Cheshire cat’s with a Lotto win last weekend of a whopping €2 million, courtesy of a ticket bought in McLoughlin’s Newsagents on Shop Street.

Naturally, shop owner Bláthnaid McLoughlin was thrilled that another one of her customers is a lottery winner – McLoughlin’s sold another winning ticket ten years ago.

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Nster.com