Cocaine worth around €6 million has been seized as part of a major Garda international crackdown.

Searches are continuing this afternoon with Gardaí describing it as a ‘live operation’.

This operation involves numerous offices from all over the country and is mainly targeting a crime group based in West Dublin – but other gangs are also involved.

The sting began last night in County Wexford where raids were carried out.

Millions of euros worth of cocaine was seized – with the full amount yet to be quantified.

Follow-up searches have been conducted in Wexford and Dublin and several arrests have been made.

The criminals involved have been communicating internationally via encrypted messaging apps to traffic drugs into the country.

Gardaí say this is a live operation and they won't be commenting any further.