Gardai have arrested a 28-year-old man after seizing €70,000 worth of cocaine in Dublin this evening.
The drugs were found following a garda raid a house in Churchtown in south Dublin. The arrest was made in a joint operation involving officers from Revenue's Customs service and gardai from the Garda National Drugs Unit. Gardai said the drugs arrived earlier by air-freight from Canada into Dublin Airport. The seizure was as a result of a joint-intelligence operation between the gardai and customs officers. The arrested man is being held at Rathfarnham Garda Station under Section 2 of the Drug Trafficking Act.