{"id":275504,"date":"2026-02-01T15:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/275504\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T15:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:04:12","slug":"three-men-charged-over-e10-1m-cannabis-seizure-in-co-louth-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/275504\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men charged over \u20ac10.1m cannabis seizure in Co Louth \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Three men arrested in connection with an alleged \u20ac10.1 million cannabis seizure in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/louth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/louth\/\">Louth<\/a> have appeared before a special sitting of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dundalk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dundalk\/\">Dundalk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/district-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/district-court\/\">District Court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Graham Sommers (37) of Moscow Drive, Liverpool, UK; Brian Coleman (38) of Glasanaon Road, Finglas, Dublin 11; and Alan O\u2019Neill (56) of Coolfore House, Hill of Rath, Drogheda, Co Louth, are each charged with the unlawful possession of cannabis and having the drug for sale or supply at a unit at Newtownstalaban, Drogheda, on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The defendants made no reply when the charges were put to them after caution on Saturday, the court heard, and there were no applications for bail. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Judge Stephanie Coggans remanded them in custody to appear via videolink before Dundalk District Court on Wednesday, February 4th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Each of the accused was granted legal aid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The judge also directed that O\u2019Neill receive medical attention at the request of his solicitor, Eleanor Kelly, who told the court that her client has a number of medical conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A joint operation by Revenue Customs Service and the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau seized 506kg of cannabis in a raid on a property in Co Louth on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men arrested in connection with an alleged \u20ac10.1 million cannabis seizure in Co Louth have appeared before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5721,9690,61,60,9689,43],"class_list":["post-275504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-district-court","tag-dundalk","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-louth","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}