Gardaí have arrested three men and seized a quantity of drugs in an operation in Carlow on Friday evening.
At 8pm Gardaí searched a house at Borlum Wood on the Green Road in Carlow town. During the course of the search they discovered 7KG of Cannabis Herb in an upstairs room. In a second room 100 cannabis plants were discovered at various stages of growth. The drugs have a street value, subject to analysis, of €220,000.
Two men in their 50s and a man in his 30s, all Lithuanian nationals, were arrested at the scene and taken to Carlow Garda Station where they are detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996.
The scene has been preserved over night pending a full technical examination and the operation in on-going.
