€8.4m worth of cocaine flown in on private plane seized by gardaí

Two men, aged 54 and 40, have been arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking, and they are currently being detained at Ashbourne Garda Station in Dublin.

A light aircraft was seized at a commercial airfield in Co Longford

The suspected use of a light aircraft to bring cocaine into Longford is believed to be one of the first times such a method was used to bring in drugs into Ireland, according to gardaí.

Two men are being questioned in connection with the discovery of €8.4m of cocaine, which garda sources say is one of the biggest seizures of the drug made on land in Ireland by gardaí. It is the biggest one so far this year.