Gardaí net €100k of heroin in search

DRUG dealers who tried to use the cover of a grotto to hide €100,000 of heroin were foiled when gardaí uncovered the stash during a planned search of wide areas of Southill in Limerick.

Up to 30 gardaí under Superintendent Ann Marie McMahon and Detective Inspector Tom O’Connor commenced the search operation at 8am and the find was made at about 11am.

The heroin, which was in wrapping, has been sent to the Garda forensic laboratory in Dublin.