Gardaí in Cork have seized €40,000 worth of heroin in Glanmire.

A quarter of a kilo of the drug was found when officers from Cork City's Divisional Drugs Squad stopped and searched a car at around 10.15pm last night on the Cork to Dublin Road.

Two men, one in his 40s and another in his 20s, were arrested under drug trafficking legislation and are being questioned at Mayfield garda station.

Gardaí believe the men were bringing the drugs from Dublin to Cork, to be distributed in Cork city.