Large drugs seizures made in Rosslare, Portlaoise and Cork

Gardai have seized ecstasy, amphetamines and cannabis with a street value of €3.5m during three separate operations last night.

Revenue officials seized 96,000 ecstasy tablets and 45kgs of amphetamines at around 4.30pm in Rosslare yesterday after finding the drugs concealed in a van-load of furniture that had arrived from the French port of Cherbourg.