{"id":589717,"date":"2026-08-11T07:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589717\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:48:17","slug":"social-worker-denied-bail-over-e950000-drug-seizure-at-dublin-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589717\/","title":{"rendered":"Social worker denied bail over \u20ac950,000 drug seizure at Dublin Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

A social worker has been denied bail over a seizure of \u20ac950,000 worth of drugs in her luggage at Dublin Airport on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Kafayat Adeniyi (51), Clarendon Place, Dover, Kent, England, was charged with unlawful possession, supply and importation of cannabis and methamphetamine on Sunday.<\/p>\n

She appeared before Judge Ciaran Liddy at Dublin District Court on Monday.<\/p>\n

Garda Shauna Redmond objected to Adeniyi’s bail, fearing she would not turn up for trial.<\/p>\n

Adeniyi was travelling from Toronto, Canada, to London Heathrow on Aer Lingus flight El 152.<\/p>\n

The court heard the drugs were in two suitcases.<\/p>\n

Adeniyi allegedly took ownership of the bags and admitted she knew there were drugs in them but claimed she did not know the type or value.<\/p>\n

Adeniyi was cautioned and arrested for Section 2 of the Criminal Justice Drug Trafficking Act 1996 and conveyed to Ballymun Garda Station.<\/p>\n

The garda said the accused, a mother with one adult son, was caught red-handed and was a flight risk as she lived in the UK.<\/p>\n

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Moroccan man (50) brought to court as \u2018Unknown Unknown\u2019 after D\u00fan Laoghaire arrest<\/p>\n

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The garda maintained that the woman made full admissions in interview to importing the drugs for a sum of money, it was alleged.<\/p>\n

The accused had no legal representation due to ongoing industrial action by solicitors who have withdrawn services in District Court legal aid cases in response to recent payment reforms.<\/p>\n

Bail was denied, and she was remanded in custody to appear again on Friday.<\/p>\n

She has yet to enter a plea to the charges, which require directions from the Director of Public Prosecutions..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A social worker has been denied bail over a seizure of \u20ac950,000 worth of drugs in her luggage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-589717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589717","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=589717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}