Brian O'Connor, aged 30, with an address at Gardiner Street, Dublin 1, was charged with assault causing harm, production of a weapon and motor theft offences in connection with the incident in the early hours of Saturday.

Thales, a French-owned arms company, already runs a factory in east Belfast and test facility in Co Down.

The driver of the car, Aaron McNutt, appeared at Letterkenny District Court following the incident.

Also intercepted at the State’s main parcel centre was more than 235 kilograms of drugs, over 125,000 tablets, and nearly 50,000 smuggled cigarettes

Police said early indications are that they are replica weapons.

It is prohibited to transport munitions of war on civil aircraft across Irish airspace without an exemption from the Minister for Transport.

The Department of Transport is examining reports that weapons bound for Israel flew through Irish airspace

The Thales plant in east Belfast design and produce high precision missiles

Gardai seized a battle rifle, a semi-automatic handgun and more than 40 rounds of ammunition.

The 33-year-old was arrested on a European Arrest Warrant issued by Irish authorities

Five people were arrested in connection with the seizures

Revenue maintains a database detailing items sent through the post which have been seized

Police said they are keeping “an open mind” in terms of the ownership of the weapons.

John Kelly (43), of Columbcille Court in Derry, is facing six charges.

Weapons including 30 pistols, eight submachine guns and 12 rifles were seized at a property on Spain's Costa del Sol

Ireland is not providing military aid to Ukraine but it was contributing to non-lethal equipment through the European Peace Facility.

They were found in the Omagh area.

Officers executed a search warrant at a property in Tallaght on Wednesday at approximately 12pm.

Rathkeale residents fear clashes between feuding gangs will “bring the town to its knees” after weapons were seized, a garda was seriously injured in a ramming, a local politician was threatened, and shots were reportedly fired at a car in the town.

‘As the sound of bombing grew louder and louder, I raised the volume on the television higher,’ Nujeen Mustafa told a crowd in Dublin.

The Irish-led declaration will require militaries to consider the impact of their actions on civilians in populated areas.

Robert Blake (47) was in possession of the weapons when he was arrested following the alleged incident in Lusk, Co Dublin on Monday night

Oleksandr Merezhko made an appeal for heavy weaponry to allow his country to defend itself