£136,000,000 of cocaine seized in Ireland’s biggest ever drugs bust

The Metro says Irish customs officers have seized 2,253 kilogrammes of suspected cocaine worth 157 million euro from a cargo vessel off the southeast coast of Ireland.

An elite Irish army unit stormed the Panamanian cargo ship suspected of carrying significant amounts of drugs in a major operation on Tuesday.

The large vessel was reportedly attempting to flee when the Naval Service closed in on it off the Co Cork coast.

Two men – from the UK and eastern Europe – have since been arrested under the country’s anti-gangland legislation.