Gardaí smash two drug gangs and arrest 80 dealers

GARDAÍ have smashed two gangs and arrested 80 dealers in a massive blitz targeting drug gangs in Dublin city centre.

Senior officers are confident they have “severely disrupted or dismantled” two particular gangs, and said they expect to arrest up to a further 40 people.

The 72 men and eight women were detained over the past 48 hours by drugs squad officers who swooped on more than 100 premises across the capital.