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« on: January 18, 2020, 02:24:01 pm »
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/cocaine-on-all-banknotes-tested-in-study-976173.html

Cocaine on all banknotes tested in study

By Lorna Siggins
Saturday, January 18, 2020 - 12:00 AM

Traces of cocaine were found on every single banknote tested in the west of Ireland as part of research into contaminated notes.

Research on traces of cocaine on banknotes in the west of Ireland has found on 100% of notes showed levels of the recreational drug.

Lower denominations of banknotes showed higher levels of the illegal substance, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) chemistry and forensic science lecturer Dr Philip White notes.

“Five euro and €10 notes had most prevalent traces,” Dr White, lead researcher in the study presented at a conference in Sligo yesterday said.

This is in contrast to previous studies of cocaine on banknotes in Britain and on the Irish east coast, where higher levels of the substance were found on higher banknote denominations.

As Dr White explained, students were despatched to a number of night clubs, pubs and other premises in and around Galway over the past two years with €50 banknotes, which they changed to obtain lower denominations.

These notes were then tested in the GMIT laboratory in Galway using a technique known as chromatographic deconvolution – a non-destructive method of testing notes by immersing them in a number of different solvents.

“We began by testing for all sorts of substances, and found levels of marijuana, along with other substances like sunscreens and food preservatives, but cocaine turned out to be the most prevalent recreational drug and we focused on that,” Dr White said.

Among 50 individual banknotes from various locations tested, most had “background” levels of cocaine, while some 30 to 40% had “medium” levels, he said.

This would suggest indirect contact with heavily contaminated notes in tills, in ATMs and in wallets, Dr White noted.

Some 8% had very high levels, suggesting they were used in direct deals or in substance use, such as snorting with rolled-up notes.

His study with a number of GMIT researchers suggests the non-destructive technique, adapted from a method of testing used in Spain, could be used to test for other illicit substances.

The research will be of value to forensic science, Dr White said.

“Basically, a forensic examination of notes in a wallet can give an indication of a person’s activity over the last 24 hours – but does not necessarily suggest that notes contaminated with drugs confirms direct use,” he cautioned.

Dr White recalled a case of a bus driver wrongfully dismissed several years ago in Britain for having traces of cocaine on his hands, due to handling contaminated notes.

He presented the results at a Connacht-Ulster Alliance collaborative research conference in Sligo yesterday, involving three institutes of technology in the Connacht-Ulster region.

A similar study published in 2007 by Dublin City University (DCU) researchers in the Royal Society of Chemistry's journal, The Analyst, found that every banknote tested was contaminated by traces of cocaine.

In that study, a total of 45 banknotes were analysed using a chromatography/mass spectrometry method, and one in 20 notes showed high levels of contamination.

The 2007 research was conducted at DCU's national centre for sensor research, and was funded by the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology.
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« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2020, 02:27:58 pm »
Would it be possible using First Year Chemistry Jamses Street CBS 1974 to wash those notes and using a bunsen burner a condenser and a few beakers to extract the Coke from the washing solution .Just asking for Big Dommos youngfellas youngfella who might do it for next years young scientist .....or an alibi

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« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2020, 02:33:07 pm »
Might be of use to taxi drivers who take cocaine... I'm told a lot of drivers use it to stay awake for long shifts... and, of course, TTnH went to court to keep one DAA based supplier licensed.. licensed to operate a cab and access the airport rank, that is... not licensed to sell cocaine, officially anyway. For balance, ITDF also went to court in support of a convicted dealer's successful appeal when his application for a SPSV driving licence was refused by a Garda Superintendent.
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« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2020, 02:44:49 pm »
Snot unusual! 8)

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« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2020, 03:09:56 pm »
Snot unusual! 8)

Set that one up for you Silver .MONEY LAUNDERING  rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl

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« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2020, 06:35:58 pm »
I always knew Lizzzy was off his tits...."couldn't get a taxi outside Vicar St!!"

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« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2020, 11:57:35 am »
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/teens-budgeting-for-cocaine-for-their-debs-976437.html

Teens ‘budgeting for cocaine for their debs’

By Liz Dunphy
Monday, January 20, 2020 - 06:15 AM

Teenagers are now budgeting for cocaine along with a dress or suit for their debs, a leading addiction therapist has claimed.

Michael Guerin of addiction charity Cuan Mhuire said that ”kids going to debs are budgeting for cocaine”.

“They’re adding the cost in with the cost of their suits and dress,” said Mr Guerin. “I’ve been told this by five or six concerned parents and older siblings in rehab.

“Cocaine has become as much a part of the debs ritual as the dress, the suit, all the other trappings. It’s a very, very concerning trend.”

A recent report from the Health Research Board revealed a 50% surge in the number of people seeking treatment for cocaine — marking the largest annual increase in what has been a growing trend over the last seven years.

“That report only supports what professionals have been saying for the last two years — that cocaine is taking on a life of its own,” said Mr Guerin.

“We have clients who started using cocaine aged 13. They’re in their early 20s now, 21, 22, telling us that they took cocaine that young and it had a huge psychological effect.

Chris Luke: Cocaine is associated with extreme violence.

“Cocaine plays havoc with your mood. And when it’s in the mix with adolescence, which is already a trying time, it can be disastrous. They become obsessed with cocaine to the cost of everything else, including their education.”

However, despite being linked with violence, the drug is now widely perceived to be “relatively harmless and fashionable”, said Mr Guerin.

“It seems to be relatively easy to access and there’s a status with it,” he said.

“Cocaine is now part of the mix with cannabis and alcohol abuse.

“A big way that youngsters get into it is that someone gives it to them for free at first, they run up a debt and then they become a distributor for them, it’s like an elaborate pyramid scheme, or like a spider web. They’re essentially recruiting children as distributors.”

Chris Luke, adjunct senior lecturer in Public Health at University College Cork, said cocaine can be “synonymous with grotesque violence”.

“Without a shadow of a doubt, if you’re working in an emergency department, the drug that is associated most commonly with extreme violence is cocaine,” said Dr Luke.

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« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2020, 12:01:17 pm »
More propaganda to get cannabis legalised. Half the fellows doing hits in Dublin couldn't function without snort.

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« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2020, 12:47:43 pm »
Dr white, how appropriate.

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« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2020, 01:58:53 pm »
Reminds me of Manning's old joke about Jagger, Richards and co going through customs at LA X and being asked if they'd taken any drugs....LSD, Cannabis, Cocaine, Methamph etc........and Jagger saying, "Nah, why?". "Well, Sir, you've landed half an hour before the fuckin' plane".

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« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2020, 03:03:21 pm »
I was thinking of a bernard manning joke last night coincidentally.

These two Irish fellas use to knock around with this Paki and the Paki got ran over by a car and killed stone dead.
The police interviewed the two of them but got nowhere.
What was his name, where did he live, next of kin etc.
Nothing.
"We knew fuck all about the man. We just used to booze with him", they told the police.
"All we know is that he had two arseholes."
What do you mean the police said.
"Every pub we went in to the barman used to say there's that Paki with them two arseholes."  :D

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« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2020, 01:35:44 pm »
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/they-are-contributing-to-profits-of-dangerous-men-judge-makes-raft-of-cocaine-convictions-from-kinsale-sevens-976862.html

'They are contributing to profits of dangerous men': Judge hands out raft of cocaine convictions from Kinsale Sevens

By Noel Baker
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 06:14 PM

A judge has said young professionals are funding “a murderous business” in buying cocaine after dealing with a string of cases in which he handed a jail term to a pharmacist and fined both an inter-county footballer and a law graduate.

Judge James McNulty made his comments at Clonakilty District Court, where he also handed a jail sentence to another man who had been convicted of having the equivalent of 100 lines of cocaine in 10 bags hidden in two socks for sale or supply.

All the cases involved locations in Kinsale during the weekend of last year’s Kinsale Rugby Sevens event. Three cases of possessing cocaine took place in and around the event itself at Snugmore in the town.

Thomas Bambrick, a 24-year-old carpenter who has also played Gaelic football for Laois, was convicted and fined €1,000 for possession of cocaine worth €80 when he was searched at 4.50pm on May 5 last while attending the Kinsale Rugby Sevens event.

Mr Bambrick, of Graigue, Mountmellick in Co Laois, had no previous convictions and his solicitor, Eamonn Fleming, said his client wanted to avoid a conviction.

Judge McNulty reiterated the points he made last week when dealing with a number of similar cases arising from the same event, stressing that the courts had to administer the law and repeating that possession of cocaine is “not a trivial offence”.

“If he and his peers choose to buy cocaine for their amusement, they are supporting what is literally a murderous business,” Judge McNulty said.

They are contributing to the profits of dangerous men who will mind their patch, collect their debts, and grow their profits by doing anything that needs to be done. That is what they are supporting.

Sean O’Leary, a 27-year-old pharmacist of 38 Kileen Woods, Tralee, pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine worth €70 when searched at 6.17pm by plainclothes gardaí on May 5 last.

Mr Fleming said his client’s employer was standing by him over an “aberration”. Mr O’Leary had no previous convictions and had been given cocaine by another person.

Judge McNulty said Mr O’Leary knew better than most the risks associated with ingesting “something that came from God knows where, made by God knows who”.

Sadly, Mr O’Leary is an example of a gifted, privileged, spoilt generation.
He sentenced him to 30 days in prison, despite the emotional pleas of the accused’s father in court.

Daniel O’Connell, a UCC law graduate and past employee of Fexco and with an address at Curragh Lodge, Aghadoe, Killarney, was convicted and fined €900 after he pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine when searched at 4.50pm on May 5 last, again at the Sevens event.

The 23-year-old had no previous convictions and his mother, Eileen, told the judge: “I would see him and his peers as being victims of these people who infiltrate these occasions and take advantage of people when they are highly intoxicated and trying to make their sales.”

Later, Lee Garvin, of 19 Trimblestone Road, Booterstown in Dublin and previously of Kinsale, was sentenced to 10 months in prison for sale or supply of cocaine.

The IT recruitment consultant had been searched after initially shouting at and being abusive to passing gardaí near a pub in Kinsale at 9.10pm on May 4 last.

He had pleaded not guilty to the sale and supply charge and to the public order charge, but had been convicted on Monday, having pleaded guilty to possession of the cocaine.

Judge McNulty said Mr Garvin’s claim that the cocaine, worth €1,152.69, was for his own use was “untenable, not credible and downright untruthful”.

The court heard Mr Garvin, 25, had had a difficult childhood and had also refused to provide gardaí with his phone when he went to the Garda station three days after the offence.

He also received a one-month jail term for the public order offence and another one month in prison for the possession offence.

All those convicted lodged appeals.

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« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2020, 01:37:46 pm »
A Pandemic of Epidemic proportions as Dan Quayle once said.....synthetic drugs are the real enemy though.........cunts walking around doped up c/o their G.P.'s...Ritalin stocks anyone?

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« Reply #14 on: January 22, 2020, 02:48:40 pm »
PEOPLE BEFOR PROFIT love this Judge ...Sean O’Leary, a 27-year-old pharmacist of 38 Kileen Woods, Tralee, pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine worth €70 when searched at 6.17pm by plainclothes gardaí on May 5 last.

Mr Fleming said his client’s employer was standing by him over an “aberration”. Mr O’Leary had no previous convictions and had been given cocaine by another person.

Judge McNulty said Mr O’Leary knew better than most the risks associated with ingesting “something that came from God knows where, made by God knows who”.

Sadly, Mr O’Leary is an example of a gifted, privileged, spoilt generation.
He sentenced him to 30 days in prison, despite the emotional pleas of the accused’s father in court.


 


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