Customs seizures

Customs officers at Dublin airport seized over 250,000 cigarettes from 19 passengers on a charter flight from the Canary Islands which landed at Dublin airport in the small hours of this morning. At the same time, two cars involved in smuggling cigarettes out of the airport were seized. So far this year over 1 million cigarettes have been seized at Dublin airport. The total for 2008 was over 38 million.