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.
The elite Army Ranger Wing (ARW) stormed the MV Matthew shipping container on Tuesday lunchtime after rappelling down from a helicopter amid stormy conditions off the coast of Cork.
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.