{"id":270824,"date":"2026-01-29T22:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/270824\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T22:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:03:09","slug":"live-investigations-underway-following-major-drugs-seizure-at-shannon-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/270824\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: Investigations underway following major drugs seizure at Shannon Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INVESTIGATIONS are underway following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/463\/crime-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">significant drugs seizure<\/a> at Shannon Airport, earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue has confirmed that 15.63kg of herbal cannabis were seized on Tuesday, during routine operations at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The illegal drugs, with an estimated value of \u20ac312,600 were discovered in a parcel originating from the USA,&#8221; said a spokesperson who added that the parcel was destined for an address in the south of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Gardai in Shannon have been alerted to the detection and investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/video\/local-news\/2001782\/watch-taoiseach-micheal-martin-calls-for-review-of-events-leading-to-limerick-garda-trial.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin calls for review of events leading to Limerick garda trial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Revenue says the seizure, the latest to be made at Shannon Airport this year, forms part of its ongoing operations targeting the importation of illegal drugs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If businesses or members of the public have any information regarding drug smuggling, they can contact Revenue in confidence on our confidential phone number 1800 295 295,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Image_1_-_seized_herbal_cannabis-1769690787228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"1373\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s understood the drugs seized at Shannon Airport will now be sent for forensic and technical analysis.<\/p>\n<p>No further information is being disclosed publicly as investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INVESTIGATIONS are underway following a significant drugs seizure at Shannon Airport, earlier this week. Revenue has confirmed that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,72,15469,61,60,1396,15229,66400],"class_list":["post-270824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-business","tag-clare","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick","tag-revenue","tag-shannon-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}