Gardaí believe ship off Cork coast was involved in planned delivery of cocaine to drug gang

The scene at Tragumna, Co Cork, where gardaí found a Rigid Inflatable Boat inside the trailer of a lorry that they believe drug traffickers had used to try to reach a ship offshore.

based in Lisbon, Portugal, to see what ships have crossed the Atlantic from South America, and possibly come up from West Africa and the Canaries, to arrive off southwest Ireland early last week. The Guinness heir on the future of the Iveagh Markets: ‘It’s going to turn into a jewel in the crown’ “It now looks like these fellows could have been out at sea for almost 48 hours after something went wrong and they literally missed the boat – the weather conditions were pretty bad but they had wetsuits and enough food so it looks like they may have stayed at sea rather than coming back to Tragumna and launching again on Thursday,” said a source.

At the court hearing, Chief Supt O’Sullivan revealed gardaí had found a 40ft rigid inflatable boat fitted with three high-powered engines and five drums containing 1,450 litres of petrol aboard, all hidden in the trailer of the articulated lorry when they stopped it leaving Tragumna.

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