The seizure came as a result of routine profiling yesterday.

Revenue has seized 27,360 cigarettes in Rosslare, Co Wexford.

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed, has criticised French handlers who were filmed allegedly abusing Irish cattle in Cherbourg.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has joined in efforts to increase facilities in France needed for increased Irish live exports, following warnings by exporters that calf prices will collapse.

Bord na gCon has said it will work with all relevant authorities to ensure those responsible for the deaths of 11 greyhounds, on The Oscar Wilde Irish Ferries vessel to France, are successfully prosecuted.

Revenue’s Customs Service seized five million cigarettes with a retail value of almost €2.4m at Rosslare Europort, it emerged today.

MORE than three million contraband cigarettes were seized at Dublin Port yesterday following a huge surveillance operation.

Cigarettes worth more than €60,000 have been seized at Rosslare Europort, customs officials have confirmed.

Customs Officials have seized one million cigarettes in Rosslare.

In a slow day on the ISEQ index, the Dublin stock exchange was up 17.02 points to 6,070.04 by the end of the day.

The loss of more than 700 jobs at Irish Ferries in a dispute over outsourcing was condemned today by union leaders.

UP to €20 million worth of cocaine may have been smuggled through Dublin Airport this year.

FIVE people, including a Co Kerry resident, who spent almost a week stranded at sea in a tiny inflatable life-raft yesterday described their terrifying ordeal after surviving storms and 30ft waves.