Two men have appeared in an Irish court after being charged in connection with the seizure of almost 160 million euro (£139 million) of cocaine on a bulk cargo ship off the coast of Ireland.
Gardaí have made three further arrests in connection with a €157 million haul of cocaine seized as a notorious Columbian cartel are suspected to be behind the
In a daring operation on Tuesday, Ireland s elite Army Ranger Wing stormed the Panamanian-registered MV Matthew cargo ship off the south-east coast of Ireland.
Cocaine with a street value of up to half a billion euro was seized from a Colombian cartel on Irish seas in what is the biggest-ever drugs seizure in the history of the State.
In the daring operation, the assault-rifle armed elite troops fast-roped down from a helicopter and stormed the Panamanian-registered MV Matthew cargo off the coast of Ireland on Tuesday.