Gardaí participating in Operation Tara have seized a combined total of 333,000 worth of drugs in two seizures over a 24-hour period.
The seizures were made in Roscommon and Galway and have led to four arrests.
A Garda spokesperson said that two men (aged in their 40s and 50s) who were arrested in connection with the investigation into the seizure of €233,000 of suspected cannabis in Galway on 15th August 2026 have since been charged and have been released pending court appearances at Galway District Court next month.
Two arrests, €100,000 Worth of Cocaine Seized, Co Roscommon, 16th August 2026
Two further suspects were arrested as part of ongoing investigations into the activities of an organised crime group based in Sligo.
Gardaí conducted an operation over the weekend of 14th-16th August 2026 as part of which officers from the Sligo/Leitrim Crime Functional Area, supported by the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau, stopped and searched a vehicle in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim and one in Keadue, Co Roscommon.
As a result of this operation, suspected cocaine with an estimated street value of €100,000 was seized.
A man (in his 40s) and a woman (in her 50s) are being detained at a station in the Garda North Western Region under Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act 2007, with the drugs to be sent to Forensic Science Ireland for analysis.
Operation Tara is focused on disrupting, dismantling and prosecuting drug trafficking networks, at all levels – international, national, local – involved in the importation, distribution, cultivation, production, local sale and supply of controlled drugs.