Revenue has seized over nine million cigarettes -with a retail value of €4.5m - at Dublin Port.

The container, on the vessel "MV Cosco Fortune" left China and sailed via the ports of Ningbo and Rotterdam before arriving in Dublin.

The 'Dorchester' brand cigarettes were described as 'vacuum cleaners' on the manifest and are believed to be counterfeit.

In a separate operation in the North five men have been arrested after 4 million cigarettes were found in Tyrone.

A suspected mobile fuel laundering plant was also seized.