The Clear Customs programme offers eligible customs agents, customs intermediaries and affected businesses a free training programme to build capacity in the customs sector.

I don’t know what Leo Varadkar is talking about when he’s commenting on the border, he obviously doesn’t travel between the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland to mainland Britain very often, because there is a border.

Central to the fate of the Brexit negotiations is the future of the Irish border. Politicians from all sides insist they want to avoid a return to border checks once the UK leaves the EU – but they disagree on how this can be achieved.

Revenue is planning to hire an extra 400 staff by March to deal with a potential no-deal Brexit.

Up to 3000 people have applied for 600 newly created customs officer jobs.

Dublin Port is stepping up customs check procedures in preparation for Brexit.

Revenue officers seized almost 700 litres of wine in two separate operations at Rosslare Europort today.

The status of the Irish border after Brexit is the most complicated and contested part of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.

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

An organised crime gang operating in the North was behind the importation of herbal cannabis worth £1.3 million, police have said.

Customs officers say their policy regarding child sex dolls is to detain the goods and hand them over to gardaí for investigation.

As the hard Brexit looms larger, the biggest challenge will come from the disruption in customs and logistics.

Brexit is the most "dangerous thing for Northern Ireland since partition", the leader of the SDLP has warned.

Gibraltar’s chief minister has raised concerns after two men fishing off the coast of the British overseas territory complained that the crew of a Spanish customs boat had "fired in their direction".

Customs officers caught a Polish man with €42,000 worth of smuggled cigarettes and tobacco for sale in Cork and yesterday he was sentenced to a suspended two-year jail term and 240 hours of community service.