Two held following Laois and Tipperary drug hauls

A man and a woman in their 20s were arrested this evening after two seizures of a substance, believed to be the main ingredient of ecstasy, MDMA, were made in Laois and Tipperary.

The first of the seizures was made when a car was stopped outside Portlaoise, while the second was made in a follow-up search of a house in Clonmel