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Gardaí (Irish police) have dismantled a major international drug trafficking route, Irish broadcaster RTÉ has reported.

The broadcaster said that about 100kg of cocaine worth more than €6m had been seized in Wexford and five people have been arrested.

The drugs were being trafficked by a west Dublin-based organised crime group, it has been reported.

It is understood the operation is being led by the Garda Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau.

Irish police searched a farmhouse in County Wexford on Monday night.

RTÉ's crime correspondent Paul Reynolds told ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ News NI's Evening Extra programme that gardaí had been targeting an organised crime group called "the Family" in west Dublin.

"They think a number of crime gangs have clubbed together to buy substantial amounts of drugs," he told the programme.

''Gardaí had been watching the gang and their movements, specifically articulated trucks, one in particular that went to this farmhouse in County Wexford where Gardaí searched it.

"Also present was a van that gardaí believe cocaine was being transferred to from the truck for onward distribution," he added.

Mr Reynolds also said there were a "series of searches last night in Wexford and Dublin where Gardaí recovered a substantial amount of cash".