Gardaí have seized guns and cocaine worth around €2 million in a nationwide operation yesterday.
Officers carried out searches of addresses in Kilkenny, Waterford, Tallaght and Ashbourne yesterday as well as intercepting two vehicles shortly before 4pm in Finglas, Dublin.
Four men aged 55, 32, 27 and 22 were arrested in connection with drug trafficking and were detained at Garda stations in Dublin and Meath. "We know that these type of deadly weapons are used by organised criminal groups to intimidate, maim and kill.
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