Five million cigarettes hidden in 'thermal storage tanks' seized at Rosslare

Revenue’s Customs Service seized five million cigarettes with a retail value of almost €2.4m at Rosslare Europort, it emerged today.

The cigarettes, including ‘Minsk’ and ‘Winston’ brands were detected when officers stopped and scanned a ‘curtain sider’ truck as it arrived on a ferry from Cherbourg, France yesterday.