Cigarettes worth more than €8m seized at Rosslare Europort

The cigarettes were found on an accompanied freight unit that had disembarked a ferry arriving from Dunkirk. Picture: Revenue

More than 9 million cigarettes worth almost €8m have been seized by officials as Rosslare Europort in Co Wexford.

Revenue officers uncovered and seized the 9,540,000 cigarettes during routine profiling on Thursday.