A MAJOR investigation is underway after hundreds of drug-soaked paper tablets were discovered in a legal package sent to an inmate in Mountjoy Prison.
The drugs, 210 paper tabs of Thienotriazolodiazepam, were concealed inside photographs of inmate Eoin Connolly’s deceased mother, which accompanied legal documentation.
The package arrived at the prison on January 4 of this year.
Sources say the paper tabs, which have a similar effect to Valium, are estimated to have a street value of €1,000 but would be worth multiples of this sum in the prison environment.
It’s understood the photographs of Connolly’s mother, who died last September, were accompanied with a cover-note advising prison authorities of this fact and a request that they be given to him.
Package posted to prison inmate had tranquiliser drugs soaked into photos
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Frances Daly is Governor 1 of Clover Hill Prison.
Rarely mentioned on the celebratory frontline workers list, Ireland’s prison officers tend to a challenging job, 365 days a year in all 12 institutions nationwide.
Born into a farming family outside of Tullamore, Co Offaly, Frances Daly, along with her parents and siblings, spent many of her younger days tending to sheep and sowing potatoes on the back of a Massey Ferguson 135.
“We kept sheep and had a few dairy cows at home in Durrow to keep milk in the house. Myself and my sister, Mary, were the smallest, so we got the job of dropping the potatoes into the ground, on our little planter and then picked them by hand, when they were ready. I feel very lucky to have had such a great healthy up-bringing.”