'Date rape drug' stolen from industrial estate
A large quantity of prescription drugs, including more than 80,000 Rohypnol tablets, has been stolen from a pharmaceutical company in north Dublin.
Rohypnol is widely known as a 'date-rape' drug, but can also be used as a prescribed drug for specific patients.
Gardaí say up to four men overpowered a security guard at the premises in the Baldoyle Industrial Estate just after 3am this morning.
Eighty-three thousand Rohypnol tablets were taken along with around one million Zopiclone sedatives.
Gardaí say the drugs may be dangerous if taken without medical supervision.
A dark-coloured four-wheel-drive vehicle was used by the raiders who fled the scene.
Gardaí at Howth Garda Station are investigating the theft and appealed for anyone with information or who is offered the haul to come forward.
