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GAA star held in €490k drug raid

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    #32
    angelclar
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    GAA players are role models for kids. he should be made examples of any face charge like any individual would.


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    #33
    Dyr
    Registered Users Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Late 30s?

    Some GAA star


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    #34
    KwackerJack
    Registered Users Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭KwackerJack


    Bambi wrote: »
    Late 30s?

    Some GAA star

    Very true sure 30 is the new OAP


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    #35
    ONeill2013
    Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭ONeill2013


    GAA 'club' star? so basically anyone outside South Dublin won't have heard of him


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    #36
    sabat
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    I reckon the GAA is actually a front for the largest narcotics ring in the country. Think about it-coaches traversing the country full of polo shirted slack-jawed yokels with sportsbags full of smack are never gonna be stopped by the cops (who as we all know are up to their necks in the organisation anyway.) Weekly raffles and club bars make for the perfect laundering operation.


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    #37
    KwackerJack
    Registered Users Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭KwackerJack


    sabat wrote: »
    I reckon the GAA is actually a front for the largest narcotics ring in the country. Think about it-coaches traversing the country full of polo shirted slack-jawed yokels with sportsbags full of smack are never gonna be stopped by the cops (who as we all know are up to their necks in the organisation anyway.) Weekly raffles and club bars make for the perfect laundering operation.


    Drug dealers with Garda escorts.....some theory. Ha


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    #38
    Sunnyisland
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    :D Wonder if it was peru he was travelling through and not Ballyfermot would people have more sympathy here ;):)


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    #39
    Dyr
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    sabat wrote: »
    I reckon the GAA is actually a front for the largest narcotics ring in the country

    You think joe brolly is eating the ****ing scenery on telly off his own steam?


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    #40
    highgiant1985
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    KwackerJack wrote: »
    Drug dealers with Garda escorts.....some theory. Ha

    exactly... whos going to stop a garda escorted vehicle...

    :P


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    #41
    stoneill
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    I heard he was forced to do it by unknown gang members. Allegedly.


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    #42
    Cody Pomeray
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    snubbleste wrote: »
    Does anyone know why AnGarda released this selective information to the media?
    Ming Flanagan, Mick Wallace, Claire Daly and Alan Shatter want to know the same thing.

    The Gardaí are probably the most loose lipped public agency in the state, when it comes to discussing private individuals.


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    #43
    downthemiddle
    Registered Users Posts: 2,992 ✭✭✭downthemiddle


    So the "star" has been named. A junior club player in Dublin who wouldn't even be regarded as a star in his own club. Nothing like a touch of hyperbole to try and sell papers.


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    #44
    bruschi
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    downthemiddle wrote: »
    So the "star" has been named. A junior club player in Dublin who wouldn't even be regarded as a star in his own club. Nothing like a touch of hyperbole to try and sell papers.

    source?


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    #45
    downthemiddle
    Registered Users Posts: 2,992 ✭✭✭downthemiddle


    bruschi wrote: »
    source?

    This rag http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/gaa-player-charged-over-600k-drug-find-29521678.html


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    #46
    recylingbin
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    *throws a few pound on Kerry.*


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    #47
    ScumLord
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    angelclar wrote: »
    GAA players are role models for kids. he should be made examples of any face charge like any individual would.
    GAA players are guys who like to kick a bag of wind around a field. He shouldn't be singled out because some kid likes GAA too and the kids parents think they can have anyone who doesn't treat their children with the hysteric aversion to anything more than PG8 hung drawn and quartered.


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    #48
    SuzieWong
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    Well definitely not a "prominent GAA player" - played junior football for a small club. Sensationalism at its best.


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    #49
    NuckingFacker
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    Slightly off topic, but I had an interesting conversation with a chap today who asked me if I ever noticed that drugs busts almost always involve hash or coke. Seldom if ever heroin. Can't say I had tbh, but it did make me think. There are also a lot of prominent dealers doing business very openly in Dublin city center who never get any hassle or action from the gards. He drew a somwhat cynical conclusion from this that i won't be posting up, but it did cause me to wonder if he had a point..


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    #50
    KwackerJack
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    Looks like he's screwed so far at least

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/gaa-coach-charged-with-possession-of-cannabis-worth-up-to-600-000-1.1504891


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    #51
    Rebus2013
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    Jesus, the Indo has become tabloid rag.

    Headline ran as "prominent gaa star"....turns out he is unknown playing for minor club.
    They play in junior D Dublin championship with is the 6th tier championship. It's the 2nd from bottom level. It's similar to over 40's soccer.

    Aside from the rubbish re:GAA link, the Indo and their supposed security expert couldn't even google to find that the guy played international soccer for Irish amateur team.

    Thankfully recent figures console us that such rags are soon to be but a distant memory.


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    #52
    diomed
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    GAA Ganga Gang Grabbed by Gardai :pac:


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    #53
    KwackerJack
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    ONeill2013 wrote: »
    I used an £8.70 free bet on Antrim U-21 v Wexford U-21.
    Antrim was 12/1 and they got a goal early on, after the goal Paddy Power changed it to 55/1 for Antrim so I made the most of it, they are 6 points up now.

    Did you buy cannabis out of it :confused:


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    #54
    ONeill2013
    Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭ONeill2013


    KwackerJack wrote: »
    Did you buy cannabis out of it :confused:

    apologies, was meant to be posted on the GAA betting thread


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    #55
    KwackerJack
    Registered Users Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭KwackerJack


    ONeill2013 wrote: »
    apologies, was meant to be posted on the GAA betting thread

    :D


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    #56
    carzony
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    KwackerJack wrote: »
    Looks like he's screwed so far at least

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/gaa-coach-charged-with-possession-of-cannabis-worth-up-to-600-000-1.1504891


    They can't lock him up, I mean he does community work and loves sport :p:p I reckon they should release the poor chap.....


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    #57
    KwackerJack
    Registered Users Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭KwackerJack


    carzony wrote: »
    They can't lock him up, I mean he does community work and loves sport :p:p I reckon they should release the poor chap.....

    And he's never been in trouble before sure give him a medal to!


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    #58
    carzony
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    KwackerJack wrote: »
    And he's never been in trouble before sure give him a medal to!

    I'm sure he has loads of them already :P It's the polish lads I feel sorry for :P I hear they came from a rough background like!


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    #59
    daRobot
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    NuckingFacker wrote: »
    Slightly off topic, but I had an interesting conversation with a chap today who asked me if I ever noticed that drugs busts almost always involve hash or coke. Seldom if ever heroin. Can't say I had tbh, but it did make me think. There are also a lot of prominent dealers doing business very openly in Dublin city center who never get any hassle or action from the gards. He drew a somwhat cynical conclusion from this that i won't be posting up, but it did cause me to wonder if he had a point..

    Why not post the conclusion he came to? It's hardly going to rock boards to it's foundations.

    My guess is on his theory, is that a ready supply of smack keeps the junkies somewhat docile, and town an easier place to police.

    There could be some truth in that perhaps, but more likely that you don't hear about Heroin busts as there's simply way less of it about in comparison to cocaine and cannabis. It's a bit of a niche market these days, innit.


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