Cigarettes, tobacco, and car seized 

The find has an estimated retail value of €220,000

The haul seized by Revenue dogs in Dublin this week. Picture: Revenue

Revenue detector dogs were to the fore as 196,000 cigarettes, 150 kilograms of tobacco, and a car were seized following a search of a number of properties in the Finglas area of North Dublin on Wednesday.

Gus and Kelly, the two customs dogs in question, aided officers in the seizure of the Richmond, Excellence, and NZ brand cigarettes, and the Flandria and Virginia tobacco.