Gardaí add €250,000 drugs seizure to €3m haul

GARDAÍ have seized drugs worth €250,000 in searches in Cork and Kerry.

Yesterday, gardaí combing a wood in east Cork discovered two hauls of ecstasy totalling 20,000 tablets.

The team, led by Inspector Martin Dorney, found the tablets with a street value of €200,000 covered in plastic wrapping and hidden in remote woodland near the village of Lisgoold.