Cannabis resin with an estimated street value of around €1.3 million was seized in Limerick yesterday as part of a major ongoing operation in the county.
The haul brings to over €5 million the value of drugs seized in the State since the weekend.
Officers from the Garda National Drugs Unit assisted by gardaí from Kerry, Cork and Clare seized yesterday's haul after a car was stopped and searched outside Adare. A 30-year-old man was arrested.
In a follow-up operation a further four men, aged 23, 36, 39 and 40 were arrested. All five were being detained last night in Garda stations in Limerick and Kerry.
On Saturday ecstasy tablets worth an estimated €3 million were seized in a house in Co Cavan in one of a series of drugs raids by gardaí.
Members of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation discovered the drugs in a house near Mullahoran during a follow-up search to the arrest of a man in his 40s in Palmerstown, Dublin, shortly before 2 p.m. on Saturday.
The man was travelling in a car which was found to contain two kilos of cocaine and a quantity of ecstasy, with an estimated street value of €650,000.
Gardaí in Co Monaghan on Sunday detained a total of 43 persons during an operation which lasted 12 hours. Some 39 seizures of illegal drugs were made and files are being prepared for the DPP.
Files are also being prepared on two people - a 38-year-old woman and a man in his 30s - following their arrest on Saturday in Banduff, Co Cork where cocaine with an estimated street value of €60,000 was found in a house.
