Drugs worth 1.8m euro found at Cork port
Cannabis worth an estimated 1.8 million euro has been discovered at Cork harbour.© Provided by PA Media (Revenue/PA)
The 90kg of herbal cannabis was found during routine checks at Ringaskiddy ferry terminal on Tuesday afternoon.
Revenue officers, assisted by a drug detection dog called Marley, found the drugs in 37 packages concealed in the panels of a Polish-registered van that had arrived from Roscoff in France.
The driver of the van, a Polish national in his 20s, was detained and subsequently arrested by gardai
An investigation was ongoing on Tuesday evening.
