Two Dutch men were being questioned after heroin with an estimated street value of six million euro was found in a lorry load of flowers.

Drugs squad and Customs officers swooped on two trucks in Dublin Port after they came off a ferry from the UK. The lorries had travelled from Amsterdam. The two men, aged 55 and 39, were arrested after 30kg (66lb) of the drug was found hidden among flowers in the back of one of the vehicles. It is believed the authorities intercepted the trucks after receiving information on suspected drug trafficking through the port.The intelligence operation involved the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the National Drugs Unit and Revenue's Customs Service. The men are being detained in Dublin under Section 2 of the Drug Trafficking Act and can be held for up to seven days.