News from around the Irish counties

ARMAGH

Three young brothers living in Northern Ireland may be sent back to their Eastern European homeland after their parents were convicted of a catalogue of abuse towards them. However, their baby sister — born just last year — may be returned to live with her cruel and brutal parents. The boys — who are currently living with a foster family — were taken into care in 2006, shortly after they arrived in Northern Ireland, after being found by the police in horrific condition.

(Source: The Belfast Telegraph)

CARLOW

Just three gardaí (Irish police) were on duty when a series of malicious blazes gutted landmark buildings in Carlow Saturday morning two weeks ago. A reliable source has revealed that when the first calls reporting the fires came through from members of the public to Carlow Garda Station at 4am on the Saturday morning, there were only three gardaí on duty at the time. Two of those were on duty in a squad car, leaving just one to man Carlow Garda Station, which is the largest in the county. The source also claimed there was no sergeant on duty on Wednesday night, Thursday night and Friday night.

(Source: The Carlow Nationalist)

CAVAN

Some 150 jobs are at risk in pharmacies around Cavan if the Department of Health does not row back on the 25 percent cut on a new payment scheme for pharmacists who dispense medicines to medical card holders and private patients whose medications are subsidized by the State. Pharmacists in Cavan have thrown down the gauntlet to the Minister for Health, Mary Harney, by threatening to stop dispensing drugs under State scheme from August 1.

(Source: The Anglo Celt)

CORK

A well-known business premises in Churchtown was raided by five Criminal Asset Bureau (CAB) officers at lunchtime last Monday as part of an investigation into a multi million euro tobacco smuggling scam. It is believed that the raid in Churchtown was focused on the financial aspect of an international tobacco smuggling operation and documentation was seized on the premises. In a coordinated series of swoops that stretched from England to Northern Ireland, to North Cork two men were arrested in Derry.

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