Monday January 18 2010

Drugs detectives have seized 1.2 million euro-worth of cannabis on the M1 motorway.

A 45-year-old man was arrested when the stash was uncovered in a lorry on the main Dublin to Belfast route, near Gormanstown in Co Meath.

The lorry was intercepted at around 7am by officers "acting on intelligence".

Superintendent Joe Kelly said: "This is a significant quantity of cannabis which has been taken off the streets."

The arrested man was taken to Balbriggan Garda station under section two of the Drug Trafficking Act.

The cannabis resin has been sent for tests.