Almost half a million euros worth of illicit drugs have been seized at Shannon Airport.
Revenue officers discovered 23kgs of herbal cannabis and 3.3kgs of cannabis resin with an estimated value of €480,000 in the luggage of a passenger disembarking from a flight from Faro, Portugal on Sunday.
The passenger, a woman in her 60s, was subsequently arrested by Gardaí and is detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice Drug Trafficking Act 1996 at a Clare Garda station.
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Investigations into the incident are ongoing.
