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Four men were being questioned by gardaí last night in connection with the seizure of cocaine with an estimated street value of €1.5 million. The drugs were found during planned searches at a number of premises in the Coolock area of Dublin yesterday afternoon.
An Uzi submachine gun was also found with the drugs. Gardaí believe the weapon may have been imported with the cocaine.
Yesterday's find was part of an ongoing operation into the activities of a Coolock gang from whom cocaine with a street value of €100,000 was seized last month. The operation was carried out by members of the Garda National Drug Unit and the drug unit attached to Clontarf Garda station.
Coombe bans visits over vomiting bug
The Coombe women's hospital, Dublin, has temporarily banned all visitors except fathers, to protect the hospital from the winter vomiting virus. Only the mother and father of the baby will be admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit until further notice.
St Vincent's hospital, Donnybrook, Dublin, has now recorded 191 cases, including seven new cases in the past 24 hours. Visitors are being asked not to visit it and hospitals and health facilities in Cork and Kerry because of the virus.
Man's body found in Liffey
Gardaí in Dublin are investigating the death of a man following the recovery of a body from the Liffey yesterday. The body was discovered near Sir John Rogerson's Quay and removed from the river at about 12.30pm yesterday and taken to Dublin City Morgue. The man has not yet been identified.