Cab officers seized more than €200,000 in cash, electronic devices and 'documents of evidential value'

Spanish have gone public with an operation against a drug trafficking gang smuggling cocaine and marihuana into Ireland from Spain which has led to 20 arrests

David Callaghan (33) was sentenced to thirteen and a half years in prison, with the final five years suspended, after he pleaded guilty to assisting or facilitating the criminal organisation's activities between April 29th, 2021 and February 4th, 2022.

In February of this year, more than half a tonne of crystal methamphetamine worth more than €30m was seized in Ringaskiddy in Cork.

Almost 40 searches were carried out in locations throughout Dublin and Wicklow as part of the operation on Thursday

The MV Matthew is the ship behind the State's largest-ever cocaine seizure