€138m of drugs seized

THE Customs Service had a record year in 2007, seizing drugs with an estimated street value of €138m.

The vast majority of this was the €113m cocaine haul found at Dunlough Bay, west Cork, last July.

Customs officials made a total of 2,758 drug seizures in 2007, the Revenue’s annual report reveals, including its two largest seizures of heroin in Rosslare and Dublin worth an estimated €4.5m.