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Children ‘gophering’ in Galway are earning up to €100 per day ferrying drugs by bicycle to house parties across the city, according to a local councillor.

The prevalance of a burgeoning drugs trade in the west is leading to a volatile and violent organised crime network, the Galway City Council Joint Policing Committee was told on Monday.

A man who was arrested after drugs with an estimated value of over €5,000 were seized at a house in Athlone has been released without charge.

A district court judge has warned that there is an increasing incidence of people with no previous convictions being used for drug dealing and other criminal activities by those higher up in the chain.

The HSE has unveiled a new national campaign on the dangers of legal and illegal drugs. The campaign is seeking to raise awareness of the dangers and significant negative mental and physical health effects that can be caused by these psychoactive substances.

A Polish man who had in the region of €1,500 worth of drugs on two occasions when gardaí searched his house, has been given a five month suspended sentence for drug dealing.

Gardai in Mullingar have seized over €5,000 worth of illegal drugs in the past week, following three separate raids on homes in the area.

The sentencing this week of three men who attempted to smuggle 62 bales of cocaine, worth €440 million, into west Cork last year has sounded the sirens of alarm.

Fianna Fail councillor Ken Glynn has welcomed “with open arms” the approval of €300,000 in Dormant Accounts funding for the Dial-to-Stop Drug Dealing campaign, saying the scheme is of vital importance to our community.

Liam Aylward MEP has said the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty will ensure that the European Union will be able to fight international crime in a more structured manner.