Officers from the Revenue's Customs Service seized money, cocaine and a large haul of cigarettes over the weekend at Dublin Airport.
Two sums of cash, €28,450 and €34,900, were seized yesterday when officers searched the baggage of two Irish nationals, aged 44 and 32, who were about to board a flight to Malaga.
Officers were granted two-month detention orders this morning in each case by Justice Brian Smyth in the Dublin District Court, to carry out further investigations.
On Saturday, officers intercepted a 25-year-old Polish man who had arrived on a flight from Brussels. He was found to have ingested 84 pellets of cocaine weighing approximately 1Kg with a street value of €70,000. He was handed over to the Garda Drug squad in Santry.
A total of 373,000 cigarettes and one vehicle were also seized over the weekend in a number of operations targeting cigarette smuggling gangs.
Customs officers at Dublin Airport have seized €1 million worth of drugs, €129,000 in cash and six million cigarettes to date in 2009.