A delivery driver carrying food, bottled water and €1 million worth of cannabis in his van has been jailed for five and a half years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court

Revenue officers searched a vehicle that had disembarked from a ferry arriving from Cherbourg in France on Sunday.

Gardaí have arrested a man, aged in his 50s, following the seizure of cocaine worth €2.8 million at Dublin Port

Gardai and Revenue have warned of a ‘significant increase’ in drug seizures at entry points into Ireland.

Drugs valued at more than €103 million have been seized up to the end of June.

The drugs were discovered in a freight container.

Alexander Kondrashyn had been socialising on the cargo vessel when he and another man went to leave by jumping from the ship as the gangway was not in position at the time

The consignment had arrived from Cyprus via the Netherlands.

The cannabis was seized from a van which had arrived on a ferry from the UK on Wednesday

A man who transported more than €2.5 million worth of cannabis to reduce his gambling debt by €13,000 has failed in an appeal against the severity of his nine-year prison sentence