A 25-year-old woman and a 22-year-old man will appear before a special sitting of Cork District Court this evening following two separate seizures of drugs yesterday.
The 25-year-old Venezuelan woman, who had travelled via Malaga in Spain, was arrested after the discovery of cocaine worth €210,000 at Cork airport. Customs officers found the drug during a search of her luggage.
The 22-year-old man was arrested after gardaí seized cannabis worth €600,000 in a separate raid on an apartment in Douglas on Cork city's southside.
The man and woman were held at Togher Garda station last night. However, officers are satisfied that there is no connection between the two seizures.
In Dublin, another man appeared in court yesterday after gardaí found cannabis worth some €180,000 in the vehicle he was driving. The man, in his 20s, was arrested following the vehicle search at Kilakee Road, Rathfarnham, at 1.50am.