Gardai seize cocaine worth up to €560,000

Drugs worth with an estimated street value of €560,000 have been seized from a house in Dublin.

Drugs worth with an estimated street value of €560,000 have been seized from a house in Dublin.

Two men in their 30s were arrested and are being held at Clondalkin and Ballyfermot Garda stations, following the raid of a house in Cherry Orchard in the west of Dublin.

Up to eight kilograms of cocaine was seized. The men are being detained under the Drug Trafficking Act which allows them to be held for up to seven days.

The seizure was part of a planned operation by the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Garda National Drugs Unit.

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