Two people have been arrested after gardaí seized €47,500 of suspected drugs and €3,900 in cash in Bansha, Co. Tipperary.

Gardaí in Co. Cork have seized suspected drugs and cash in two separate raids there today.

There has been a 44% rise year on year in the number of contactless payments being made, according to today's Banking and Payments Federation Ireland's Payment Monitor.

Gardaí attended the scene of a cash in transit robbery that occurred at a premises at Blanchardstown Shopping Centre at approximately 2.55pm today.

The Criminal Assets Bureau seized 10 vehicles, four Rolex watches and more than €30,000 in cash in a series of early morning raids targeting a Cork-based organised crime gang.

Sweden’s central bank says it wants all banks, and not just the biggest financial institutions, to be obliged to handle cash, as politicians seek ways to limit the country’s rapid development into a cashless society.

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

Two men will appear at in court tomorrow morning charged in connection with the seizure of €1.7m in Wexford and Dublin yesterday.

Revenue Detector Dog Josie has discovered €90,000 hidden in a suitcase at Dublin Airport.

We are using our cards more than ever to pay for goods at tills around the country.

Cash and cigarettes have been seized at Dublin Airport.

Cash is still king but its crown is slipping according to new figures from a trade association show.

More than 23,000 incidents of suspected money laundering or terrorist financing were notified to the gardaí last year, an increase in reports of 7.5%.

Two men were arrested and €300,000 was seized in Dublin yesterday.

India has withdrawn 86% of its paper money in a bid to eradicate tax evasion, but a world that follows suit may not be very democratic, writes John Hearne.

Once the flights and accommodation are sorted, we tend to leave the rest of the planning until the last minute. And that may be costing us, writes Gráinne McGuinness.

So what is happening in Sweden? In a terror non-attack, they are set to be a cashless society within a decade. India is going the same way but where does this leave the poor, stall owners, buskers and generous aunts and uncles, asks Clodagh Finn.

Crime bosses have lost more than €8m in cash, €65m worth of drugs and almost 100 luxury vehicles as a result of Garda anti-gangland operations in the last year, writes Cormac O'Keeffe.

Crime bosses have lost more than €8m in cash, €65m worth of drugs and almost 100 luxury vehicles as a result of Garda anti-gangland operations in the last year.

Cash and cannabis, worth around €26,000, has been seized by Gardaí in Dublin.

Thailand's military government has approved a one-time payout for low-income people in an effort to stimulate the country's weak economy.

Cash buyers are paying less for properties than those who need to get a mortgage and first-time buyers are being squeezed out of the market.

A man has been arrested as part of an operation targeting organised crime in Dublin.

A man in due on court in Limerick this morning charged in relation to a drugs seizure.