{"id":492871,"date":"2026-06-10T18:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492871\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T18:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:12:12","slug":"e500k-worth-of-drugs-seized-at-shannon-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492871\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20ac500k Worth Of Drugs Seized At Shannon Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drugs worth half a million euro have been seized at Shannon Airport.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of routine operations, Revenue Officers, assisted by detector dog Brody, seized approximately 25 kilograms of herbal cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>The illicit drugs were discovered in a shipment originating from the US and was destined for an address in the Mid-West.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>This seizure is part of Revenue\u2019s ongoing operations targeting organised crime groups and the importation, sale and supply of illegal drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue is encouraging businesses, or members of the public, who may have any information regarding smuggling, to contact them in confidence on 1800 295 295.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drugs worth half a million euro have been seized at Shannon Airport. As a result of routine operations,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-492871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492871","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=492871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}