TWO IRISH CITIZENS are among a group of people arrested by Spanish police in Ibiza in a major drugs operation.

The operation is being jointly run by Spanish and British police, and has resulted in the discovery of around 38,000 ecstasy tablets and 4kg of cocaine, as well as other drugs.

Police also recovered around €56,000.

Fourteen men and 11 women have been arrested, including two Irish and 20 British people.

The nationalities of the other people arrested include Spain, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

The drug racket is believed to have been run from Britain, and local police are saying that they have successfully broken the most powerful drugs ring on the island.

The chief of the European operations of the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) said that “every level of a gang that was responsible for supplying and distributing a vast quantity of drugs to Ibiza” has been taken out by the arrests.

Police also said that students had been acting as mules for the gang by bringing drugs to the island packed in their suitcases. Nightclub employees are believed to be among those arrested.