Two stuffed turkeys and 14m cigarettes seized at airport

MORE than 14 million cigarettes and nearly €1.5 million worth of illicit drugs – along with two stuffed turkeys and erectile dysfunction-type drugs – are just some of the items customs officers at Dublin Airport have seized from passengers so far this year.

And officers at the airport expect a surge in the amounts of contraband items, particularly drugs and tobacco products, seized between now and the end of the year as the summer holiday season is coming to an end. It also warned of an upcoming crackdown on people returning from seasonal shopping trips to the US without paying the correct duties.

So far this year, passengers arriving at the airport were caught trying to take a total of €1.35m worth of illicit drugs into the country in their baggage.