Customs seizes 4m cigarettes at port

CUSTOMS have seized another multi-million euro consignment of counterfeit cigarettes.

Revenue customs officers confiscated 4.2 million cigarettes in Cork port, with a potential loss in taxes of €1.5m to the Exchequer.

It is the second massive haul of cigarettes at the port and follows another haul of 4.2m cigarettes there last January.