Gardaí seized drugs worth €1.8 million in Dublin last night.
The ecstasy tablets were found after a man in a car was searched on Neilstown Drive, Clondalkin, by officers from the Garda National Drugs Unit and Clondalkin Drugs Unit.
The man (20), who was carrying the drugs in plastic bags, was arrested and is being questioned in Clondalkin Garda station.
He can be held for up to a week before being charged or released - and is from the Clondalkin area, according to gardaí
The drugs are believed to have originated in The Netherlands and are reported to have been destined for a west Dublin criminal gang.
Provisional figures released earlier this month by gardaí show that the value of all drugs seized last year was almost €74 million. In 2000, drug seizures were worth just over €8 million.
Seizures of heroin, cocaine, herbal cannabis and amphetamines in 2006 were all up on 2005, while the recovery of cannabis resin and ecstasy was down.
More than 165 kilograms of heroin, 2,500 kilograms of cannabis resin and 200 kilograms of herbal cannabis were recovered, along with 274 kilograms of cocaine, 20.5 kilograms of amphetamines and 154,500 ecstasy tablets.