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.
DUBLIN – The biggest-ever drug seizure in the history of Ireland was intercepted off the coast of Cork in the southeast of the country on Tuesday, Irish police said. Cocaine weighing 2 253 kilogrammes, worth an estimated 157 million euros ($165 million), was seized from the vessel “MV Matthew” travelling from South America, Director General of Revenue and Customs, Gerry Harrahill said at a news conference in Dublin Wednesday. “It …