Revenue officers discovered the cigarettes as part of routine profiling.

Revenue officers have seized cash and cigarettes in Co. Mayo.

Revenue officers have seized more than 2,500 unstamped cigarettes and around €18,000 in cash in two operations this week.

Revenue seized almost three million cigarettes worth €1.6 million during a search of a premises in Newhall, Co Kildare yesterday.

A Dublin Bus worker caught selling almost 10,000 untaxed cigarettes online has been fined €2,500.

Revenue officers have seized more than 7,800 cigarettes, 20kgs tobacco and a car in Co. Wexford.

The seized cigarettes originated in Belarus.

12,000 unstamped cigarettes were seized by Revenue officers during the search of a house in North County Dublin yesterday.

Revenue officers seized 98,000 cigarettes, more than 4kgs of tobacco and 2,950 litres of alcohol in Dublin Port on Friday.

More than 11,300 cigarettes, 5kgs of tobacco and a car were seized by Revenue officers in Cork city today.

Revenue seized more than €33m worth of drugs last year, according to its preliminary results for 2018.

Revenue officers have seized around 10,600 cigarettes in Cork Port.

Illegal cigarettes worth more than €16,000 have been seized in County Laois.

7.2 million smuggled cigarettes were seized by Revenue officers at Dublin Port yesterday.

Cash worth €3,750 and 216,000 cigarettes have been seized by Revenue Officers in Cork and Dublin this week.

Almost 15,000 smuggled cigarettes have been seized by Revenue officers in Limerick.

Revenue officers seized cigarettes and alcohol in Dublin and Rosslare yesterday in two separate operations.

Almost 13,000 smuggled cigarettes have been seized at Rosslare Port by Revenue today.

Revenue officers have seized 7.9 million smuggled cigarettes at Dublin Port.

A Co Louth man, wanted in the UK for his alleged role in the smuggling of cigarettes and tobacco by an “organised crime gang”, is expected to challenge his extradition to the UK on a legal point related to Brexit.

Thousands of cigarettes, packets of tobacco and cannabis have been seized in Dublin.

Nearly one in every three cigarettes smoked in Cork city and county could be contraband, according to a survey which points to massive losses to Revenue from smuggling.

It has been a record-breaking year for illegal cigarette seizures - the largest coming at the end October when Customs officials recovered 120 million cigarettes in Greenore Port in Co Louth.

One man is being questioned today after customs officers from Dublin Port seized between five and six million smuggled cigarettes late last night..

Customs officials said unloading and counting the cigarettes seized in Europe’s largest ever haul of smuggled cigarettes could take as long as two days.

Detectives were given more time today to question three men over Europe’s largest ever seizure of smuggled cigarettes.

Customs officials will begin the daunting task today of counting an estimated 120 million cigarettes smuggled into the country.