Woman held after drugs find

A woman was arrested at Dublin Airport yesterday afternoon after Customs officers found 12kg of herbal cannabis worth about £…

A woman was arrested at Dublin Airport yesterday afternoon after Customs officers found 12kg of herbal cannabis worth about £50,000 in her luggage. The woman had travelled to Dublin from Johannesburg, stopping off in Vienna. A spokesman for the Revenue Commissioners said the woman was stopped in a routine "profiling" regime.

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