Two men have been charged after the discovery of an estimated €360,000 worth of cannabis at a house in Co Longford on Thursday. They have appeared at Longford district court and have been remanded in custody to appear again on January 23rd. Three men were originally arrested after searches carried out at a property near Abbeylara yielded cannabis plants worth in the region of €360,000. CigarettesSeparately, Revenue officers at Dublin Port seized two million smuggled cigarettes with an estimated retail value of €1 million. The smuggled cigarettes were branded ‘Richman’ and were detected when the consignment, addressed to Dundalk and said to be made up of “household goods,” was selected for examination following routine profiling.

Source: The Irish Times January 19, 2018 12:21 UTC