Monkeys and machetes in post seized by Revenue

MONKEYS, a sub-machine gun, the skin of a caracal and a machete are among the more unusual items that have seized by Revenue over the year.

It has also seized two gemsbok horns, 79 animal snares, one stun gun, five flick knives, one sub-machine gun and six pepper sprays which had been posted to Ireland from abroad.

As well the two monkeys they also seized several monkey body parts, along with the caracal skin (a middle-eastern or African cat resembling a lynx).