{"id":662796,"date":"2026-08-29T22:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T22:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/662796\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T22:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T22:37:17","slug":"men-arrested-after-e2-3m-worth-of-drugs-seized-in-dublin-operation-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/662796\/","title":{"rendered":"Men arrested after \u20ac2.3m worth of drugs seized in Dublin operation \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two men have been arrested after more than \u20ac2.3 million worth of drugs were seized in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/blanchardstown\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/blanchardstown\/\">Blanchardstown<\/a>, west <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\">Dublin<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The seizure of cocaine, cannabis and MDMA was part of an intelligence-led investigation into the sale and supply of drugs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The operation was carried out by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na<\/a>\u2019s Dublin Crime Response Team who observed and intercepted the handover of the drugs in \u201ca public place\u201d in Blanchardstown on Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed seized about 18kg of suspected cocaine with an estimated value of \u20ac1.8 million. An additional four kilograms of suspected cocaine worth about \u20ac400,000 was seized from a vehicle at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Garda&#xED; intercepted &#x20AC;2.3 million worth of drugs in Blanchardstown, Co Dublin, on Friday\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WALRVV7AZBCC7LXOBVUGW7OFPU.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"1422\"\/>Garda\u00ed intercepted \u20ac2.3 million worth of drugs in Blanchardstown, Co Dublin, on Friday <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two men aged in their 50s and 60s were arrested and detained at a Garda station in the Dublin region under section two of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking Act) 1996.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Follow-up searches in Dublin resulted in an additional 5,000 MDMA tablets, worth an estimated \u20ac50,000, and four kilograms of cannabis herb, worth an estimated \u20ac56,000 being seized. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The drugs seized will be forwarded to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/forensic-science-ireland\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/forensic-science-ireland\/\">Forensic Science Ireland<\/a> for analysis, garda\u00ed said in a statement on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been arrested after more than \u20ac2.3 million worth of drugs were seized in Blanchardstown, west&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,22431,9,10,52,10539,18,13,14,3609,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-662796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-blanchardstown","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-dublin","tag-dublin-15","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-forensic-science-ireland","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117181196187280993","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662796","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=662796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}