“Some of the threats from the past still remain.”

Whilst the First and deputy First Ministers made their way to Downing St to talk to the Prime Minister about the bill.. In Belfast PSN Assistant Chief Constable Drew Harris has withdrawn from the ACPO drugs conference at the Europa Hotel to attend to a heightened security threat from dissenting republican paramilitaries.Btw, the use of the island, as a whole, as a gateway to Europe by drugs smugglers shouldn’t be a shock. Some might blame the CTA, and others point to the need for e-border controls, but Ireland’s isolated coasts have been identified as being “nearly impossible to patrol”.

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