Gardaí this morning carried out raids in Dublin city seizing drugs, cash, stolen property and an Audi A3.

Officers from the newly formed Special Crime Task Force - which is targeting organised criminals - searched four properties in the south inner city.

They seized heroin with a street value of €3,000, a substantial sum of money, €30,000 worth of jewellery and a watch worth €15,000.

An Audi A3 and other items of stolen property were also seized.

A number of documents recovered are to be forensically examined.

A man and a woman in their 20s were arrested and are being held at Kevin Street Garda Station.