{"id":260922,"date":"2026-01-01T02:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/260922\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T02:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:47:13","slug":"chewing-tobacco-worth-e605k-seized-at-dublin-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/260922\/","title":{"rendered":"Chewing tobacco worth \u20ac605k seized at Dublin Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is under way after chewing tobacco worth an estimated \u20ac605,000 was seized by Revenue officers at Dublin Port.<\/p>\n<p>The seizure was carried out during routine profiling on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue has said that the tobacco, which weighed 1,100kg, originated in India and arrived into Dublin Port via The Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, a man has been arrested after drugs worth more than \u20ac200,000 were seized in Co Carlow.<\/p>\n<p>During a search of a house in Hacketstown yesterday, cannabis with a street value of \u20ac136,000, cocaine worth \u20ac38,000, valium tablets valued at \u20ac2,000, along with vapes and vape liquid valued at \u20ac39,000 were seized.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed from the Carlow Drugs Unit also seized \u20ac21,750 in cash.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cannabis, cocaine, tablets, vapes and cash on a table\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0023aee1-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe drugs and cash were seized during the search of a house in Hacketstown, Co Carlow<\/p>\n<p>The man, who is in his 30s, was arrested at the scene and remains in garda custody.<\/p>\n<p>The seized drugs will be sent to Forensic Science Ireland for analysis.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate operation in Limerick, suspected cannabis herb with an estimated street value of \u20ac540,000 was seized near Newcastle West yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The drugs were discovered during the search of a residential property at Carraigkerry.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made and investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is under way after chewing tobacco worth an estimated \u20ac605,000 was seized by Revenue officers at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-260922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115817561715632682","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}