Almost €12,000 in cash and more than 800 litres of alcohol have been seized in Galway city.

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

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

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

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

Revenue officers in Rosslare have seized 15kg of tobacco and 750 litres of Sangria.

Revenue officers have seized more than 36,500 smuggled cigarettes in Co. Cork.

More than €100,000 of beer has been seized at Rosslare Europort.

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

Revenue officers have seized herbal cannabis and contraband cigarettes in Dublin and Portlaoise worth around €135,000.

Revenue officers at Dublin Airport have seized 70kgs of tobacco.

Revenue Officers in Dublin Port seized more than 25,000 litres of beer yesterday, it has emerged.

Revenue officers have seized more than €6,000 worth of smuggled alcohol in three searches at Dublin Port.

European police have smashed an international weapons-smuggling ring operating in at least four countries.

Indonesian customs officials have arrested two foreigners accused of attempting to smuggle drugs on to the tourist island of Bali.

Revenue says its new mobile scanner unit will make the fight against smuggling more efficient.

Five people smugglers have been charged by Italian prosecutors with aiding and abetting the murder of more than 200 migrants as a result of evidence provided by the captain and crew of an Irish Naval service ship.

This afternoon Revenue officers, assisted by detector dog Frankie, uncovered more than 18,000 contraband 'NZ' cigarettes in the checked in luggage of a 42-year-old Estonian man.

Illegal cigarettes, either counterfeit or contraband, are as easily available in rural areas of Cork as they are in the city.

The Eritrean man extradited to Italy as an alleged kingpin of a migrant smuggling ring has told authorities his arrest in Sudan was a case of mistaken identity and denied that calls from his phone to Libya were related to trafficking, his lawyer said.

Revenue has seized two million cigarettes, worth around €1.1m, at Dublin Port.

A British former soldier who tried to smuggle a four-year-old Afghan girl into Britain at her father’s request has been cleared of all charges related to aiding illegal immigration.

Revenue officers in Rosslare Europort have seized smuggled cigarettes hidden in a number of hot tubs.

Revenue officers have seized 4.1 million cigarettes with a retail value of more than €2.1m from a container intercepted on the M1 motorway.

Revenue officers seized 445,000 cigarettes yesterday in Cork hidden inside several mannequins.

Four people have been jailed for a total of 31 years in connection with an international plot to smuggle cocaine worth a "colossal and "mind-boggling" £164m into the UK.

Revenue have seized more than 111,000 cigarettes and 67.5kgs of unstamped roll-your-own tobacco in Cork and Dundalk.

More than five million cigarettes, with a retail value of €2.5m, have been seized by Revenue at the Port of Cork.

Cigarettes containing high levels of asbestos, lead, arsenic, traces of rat poison and human excrement are flooding Ireland as dissidents and highly organised crime gangs make vast profits buying them for as little as 20c a packet.

At least 40 migrants have died and some 300 others have been rescued in the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya, the Italian navy says.

International gangs consider Ireland an easy target for smuggling, and will continue to operate here if stricter measures are not enforced, a retail group has warned.

A special cross-border force should be set up to tackle the smuggling of fuel, cigarettes, and alcohol, and tougher laws introduced in both jurisdictions, a British-Irish parliamentary report has recommended.

Criminal gangs are earning profits equal to almost a thousand times the fines imposed on smugglers by the courts, according to the tobacco industry.

Colombian police say they have caught a 78-year-old Spaniard trying to smuggle cocaine out of the country in his belly.

Retailers fighting tobacco and fuel smuggling are concerned that gangs here are setting up manufacturing plants to produce illicit cigarettes.

Gardaí in Cavan have arrested four men in connection with the seizure of two million cigarettes in the town yesterday evening.

Gardaí in Monaghan are continuing to question four men arrested with the seizure of two million smuggled cigarettes.

Gardaí have seized a massive quantity of smuggled cigarettes in Co Louth.