Collopy operation ‘the top of the pyramid’ in Limerick heroin scene

What was described as the top of the pyramid in the Limerick heroin distribution scene was uncovered in the kitchen of a council house during a garda raid.

After a drugs squad stormed two adjoining and connected houses in St Mary’s Park, Limerick, last December, they found brothers, Kieran and Brian Collopy involved in packaging heroin.

As well as heroin found on the kitchen worktop, traces of the drug were found in a saucepan located in a bath upstairs.