VIDEO - Operation Thor results in over 50 arrests

International police chiefs in Kilkenny

Reporter:

Mary Cody

6 Oct 2016

Email:

mary.cody@kilkennypeople.ie

Over 50 people have been arrested as part of the ongoing garda Operation Thor.

Drugs with an estimated street value of €30,000 have been seized and a firearm has also been seized.

Checkpoints and searches are ongoing. Top police chiefs from all over Europe are in Kilkenny City to witness the operation - the eighth of its kind in the district.

Superintendent Padraig Dunne spoke to Mary Cody of the Kilkenny People.

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