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€6.9 million worth of drugs seized in Co. Kilkenny

€6.9 million worth of drugs seized in Co. Kilkenny

Gardaí attached to the Garda National Drugs & Organised Crime Bureau have seized nearly €7,000,000 worth of drugs seized in Co. Kilkenny.

Assisted by Revenue Commissioners Customs Service and officers from the Eastern Region, authorities searched a business premises at Ballyhale, Co Kilkenny earlier today.

They recovered cannabis with an estimated street value in excess of €6.9 million.

Two men, aged in their 40s and 30s, were arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking and are currently detained at Kilkenny Garda Station.

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The arrests followed an intelligence-led Garda operation, targeting transnational drug trafficking networks, which was conducted in the course of Operation TARA, the focus of which is to disrupt, dismantle and prosecute drug trafficking networks.

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