{"id":273963,"date":"2026-01-31T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/273963\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T16:10:09","slug":"gardai-seize-cannabis-worth-e10m-after-raid-in-co-louth-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/273963\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed seize cannabis worth \u20ac10m after raid in Co Louth \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cannabis worth an estimated \u20ac10 million has been seized by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">garda\u00ed<\/a> as part of investigations targeting organised crime activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A joint operation by Revenue Customs Service and the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau seized 506kg of cannabis in a raid on a property in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/louth\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/louth\/\">Louth<\/a> on Friday, January 30th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The operation formed part of Operation Tara, a Garda initiative targeting drug-dealing networks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Three men, two in their 30s and one in his 50s, were arrested in connection with drug trafficking offences. They are currently detained at Garda stations in Louth and Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Investigations are continuing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">This seizure is part of Revenue\u2019s ongoing operations targeting the importation of illegal drugs. If businesses, or members of the public, have any information regarding smuggling, they can contact Revenue in confidence on 1800 295 295.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cannabis worth an estimated \u20ac10 million has been seized by garda\u00ed as part of investigations targeting organised crime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,9689,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-273963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-louth","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273963","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=273963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}