# Customs

Last year

2022

# Cocaine

Two people arrested as €1.26 million worth of cocaine seized as vehicle searched at Dublin Port

The seizure was made as part of a joint operation by Revenue and gardaí.

18.5k

Oct 10th 2022, 7:24 PM

# Balbriggan

Man arrested after herbal cannabis worth €226,000 seized in north Dublin

Revenue officers seized 11.3kg worth of herbal cannabis in the Balbriggan area.

15.8k

Oct 3rd 2022, 5:49 PM

# Dublin

Man due in court after gardaí and customs seize more than €100,000 of ecstasy in Dublin raid

The seizure is part of a wide ranging investigation into organised crime in the capital.

24.5k

Updated

Aug 16th 2022, 7:57 AM

# Customs

Man arrested and €157,600 of suspected cannabis seized in organised crime investigation

The operation was part of investigations into suspected organised crime in Artane.

17.2k

Mar 11th 2022, 9:35 PM

# maritime patrol

Customs service to spend €20 million on new boats to help tackle drug trade

One key mission will be the service’s role in the Joint Task Force on Drug Interdiction.

19.7k

Feb 20th 2022, 6:30 AM

# Seizure

Arrested man released without charge after major cocaine seizure in Dublin

The drugs were concealed in the refrigeration unit of a vehicle that was stopped and searched.

45.1k

Updated

Jan 30th 2022, 4:49 PM

All time

# Halloween

Brexit and supply chain issues have led to fewer illegal fireworks in Ireland

Gardaí have launched Operation Tombola while Customs have targeted shipments arriving into Ireland via the postal network.

Supply chains and post-Brexit paperwork in the UK may be to blame for the illegal trade in Fireworks in Ireland.

Gardaí and Customs have made seizures but in general sources said possessions have reduced.

Gardaí have launched Operation Tombola while Customs have targeted shipments arriving into Ireland via the postal network.

14.2k

Oct 19th 2021, 12:05 AM

# Smuggling

Revenue seizes 7.2 million cigarettes with an estimated retail value of €5m

The cigarettes were discovered inside a container using Revenue’s mobile x-ray scanner.

16.6k

Aug 5th 2021, 5:27 PM

# Dublin Port

Revenue find 10.5 million illegal cigarettes in Dublin Port search operation

The tobacco products were found in a container which had come from Asia via the Netherlands.

15.8k

Jul 15th 2021, 10:45 PM

# Cuba

Cuba lifts customs restrictions on food and medicine after unprecedented protests

The change will be in effect until the end of the year.

13.6k

Jul 15th 2021, 7:14 AM

# Brexit

Businesses re-opening after lockdown still ‘not as prepared as they need to be' for Brexit

The remarks were made at an Oireachtas committee today.

10.4k

May 10th 2021, 10:43 PM

# Customs

1.8 million customs declarations were processed in January – more than in all of 2020

Revenue has apologised for “intermittent performances” with its import system.

20.3k

Feb 8th 2021, 6:36 PM

# Dublin Port

Volume of trucks arriving in Ireland is 50% lower than expected due to Covid restrictions and Brexit

“I wouldn’t say it’s a delay – I would say this is very much the new norm,” Tom Talbot of Revenue said.

14.9k

Jan 18th 2021, 3:39 PM

# Disruption

How has trade between Ireland and Great Britain been affected in the first two weeks of Brexit?

More than 70% of trucks are completing paperwork before moving goods, and are being ‘green-lighted’ to leave Irish ports.

40.7k

Jan 17th 2021, 6:30 AM

# post brexit

Warning businesses to face sanctions for flouting post-Brexit customs rules

Friday saw the first ferries arrive in Ireland from Britain under new trade rules following the end of the Brexit transition period.

32.6k

Jan 1st 2021, 6:21 PM

# Brexit

The Northern Ireland Protocol kicks off from tonight - here's what you need to know

New checks and processes on trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland will come into operation at 11pm tonight.

49.4k

Dec 31st 2020, 12:18 PM

# 31 December

Brexit questions answered: A few things of note about what will change

Brexit continues to trundle towards us – here’s a bit more information about what is changing.

22.6k

Oct 31st 2020, 8:30 AM

# Customs

Brexit is coming: Here's what will change after 31 December 2020

British driving licences made invalid, a customs-check comeback, and what to do with the UK landbridge.

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Oct 24th 2020, 9:00 PM

# Drug Crime

Gardaí seize cocaine, methamphetamine and GHB following searches in Dublin

A package was intercepted by Revenue officers today after analysis of a seized mobile phone.

31.5k

Aug 11th 2020, 9:52 PM

# Brexit

McEntee says NI protocol is 'vague and lacking in detail on customs' as deadline looms

The Brexit transition period is due to end on 31 December.

10.8k

Jun 12th 2020, 7:38 AM

# Dublin Airport

Over 33,000 cigarettes seized by customs officers in Dublin

The cigarettes were seized after officers searched a man who disembarked a flight from Cairo.

13.6k

Mar 10th 2020, 9:57 PM

# Smuggling

'A no-man's land scenario': The ideas sent in from the public to avoid a hard Irish border

One person suggested that they should “erect poles at every road crossing the border between Northern Ireland and the South”.

19.6k

Jan 12th 2020, 7:30 AM

# Brexit

'It takes two to tango': UK and EU officials to resume Brexit talks in Brussels

There are doubts about the feasibility of a British proposal to track goods as they move through Northern Ireland.

14.9k

Updated

Oct 14th 2019, 11:14 AM

# No deal

'Brexit Godfather' Johnson accused of deliberately putting forward a Brexit deal the EU will reject

The British Prime Minister is today expected to again stress that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October, one way or another.

40.1k

Updated

Oct 2nd 2019, 9:06 AM

# Seized

Dried bat, horse's tail and 37 crocodile teeth - the strange items people try to smuggle into Ireland

The contraband originated in countries including Cameroon, Indonesia, India and Japan.

9.6k

Sep 9th 2019, 7:07 AM

# Puppies

Six Cocker Spaniel puppies seized by DSPCA and Revenue at Dublin Port last night

The puppies were found concealed among furniture in a van.

26.9k

Aug 19th 2019, 5:12 PM

# Front Line

Britain steps up border security with 500 new officers ahead of likely no-deal Brexit

The UK government has allocated £2.1 billion in funding to speed up the process.

16.1k

Aug 1st 2019, 6:09 PM

# exotic animals

Salamanders and toad illegally posted to Ireland from Spain

The ISPCA has called for tougher regulations around the selling of exotic animals as pets.

17.1k

Jun 25th 2019, 1:17 PM

# now what

UK govt: Tariffs 'will not apply' to goods crossing border from Ireland in no-deal scenario

Border inspection posts would be needed to inspect animal products coming from outside the EU.

35.8k

Updated

Mar 13th 2019, 8:49 AM

# Revenue

Foxhound and 3 lurchers seized at Dublin Port

The four dogs were not microchipped and did not have the proper documentation.

16.2k

Dec 20th 2018, 6:51 PM

# down to the wire

Contingency plans for a no-deal 'hard Brexit' scenario approved by ministers

3,000 job applications for 600 customs positions have been received.

17.3k

Nov 27th 2018, 6:39 PM

# Drugs Seizure

Heroin worth over €2 million seized at Dublin Airport

The 15kg of heroin was discovered in a woman’s luggage.

22.0k

Nov 17th 2018, 4:13 PM

Dublin Port is already scaling up its operations to prepare for a hard Brexit

As the Brexit backstop will not apply to Ireland’s ports, work is underway to add new custom checks and new infrastructure.

17.9k

Jul 19th 2018, 11:33 AM

# Child Safety

Ireland and US agree to share travel information of convicted child sex offenders

The Cabinet approved the sharing of travel information of child sex offenders from the US to Ireland and vice versa.

8.4k

Jul 5th 2018, 8:29 PM

# Northern Ireland

'I would not be as confident as you': May and Brexiteer MP 'in row over who would win a border poll'

The Prime Minister met with Conservative MPs yesterday to discuss future customs arrangements.

36.1k

May 15th 2018, 11:35 AM

# customs union

Boris Johnson calls UK's post-Brexit trade plan 'crazy'

Britain’s Foreign Secretary said “a whole new web of bureaucracy” could be created.

16.6k

May 8th 2018, 8:30 AM

# Dublin Port

Lithuanian trucker refused bail after allegedly importing €1.8m worth of drugs into Dublin

Father-of-two Alvydus Simkus has an address in Limerick.

16.3k

Apr 2nd 2018, 3:12 PM

# Drugs

Man arrested after cocaine, heroin and ketamine worth €2.5m seized at Dublin Port

A 55-year-old non-national male has been arrested.

17.9k

Mar 31st 2018, 1:56 PM

# Colombo

Man caught at Sri Lankan airport with a kilogramme of gold hidden in his rectum

The man is reportedly a courier for an organised smuggling ring.

33.9k

Sep 26th 2017, 8:41 AM

# nothing to declare

This giant x-ray machine will be scanning suspicious cargo trucks at Dublin Port

And some very clever sniffer dogs will be helping out too.

17.8k

Jun 15th 2017, 6:25 PM