Cocaine and cannabis worth €1.57m seized in Dublin

Image source, Irish Revenue Service

Image caption, Revenue officers siezed drugs worth a combined €1.57 million (£1.32 million

Cocaine and cannabis with a combined estimated street value of €1.57m (£1.32m) has been seized at Dublin Airport.

Three separate operations on Wednesday led to the discovery of 1.3kg (2.8lbs) of cocaine worth about €91,000 and a total of 74kg of herbal cannabis worth about €1.4m.

Three people were arrested and charged by An Garda Síochána (Irish police).

They have appeared in court.

Image source, Irish Revenue Service

Image caption, Cocaine seizure worth an estimated value of €91,000 (£77,000).

A man in his 30s was arrested in connection with the cocaine seizure after arriving on a flight from Lisbon.

He had started his journey in Brazil.

A man in his 40s and a woman in her 20s were detained after arriving on two separate flights.

They both began their journeys in Thailand.