Two men arrested in back to back drug raids

Two men were arrested as a result of drug raids on a home and business in Oranmore and Galway City this week.

Gardaí seized over €24,000 worth of cannabis, cocaine and ecstasy during searches conducted as part of Operation Tara in County Galway on Friday.

On Friday night, around 11pm, Gardaí raided a home in the Oranmore area, where they found suspected cocaine worth €5,400 and suspected cannabis worth €1,000.

During the course of a follow-up search at a business premises in Galway city, Gardaí seized suspected cannabis worth €17,000 along with approximately €1,000 of suspected ecstasy tablets.

A man in his late teens and a man in his 40s were arrested as part of this investigation and detained at a Garda station in Galway under the provisions of Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.

Both men have since been released without charge and a file is being prepared for the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

All of the seized drugs (totalling €24,400) will now be sent to Forensic Science Ireland (FSI) for analysis.