A pensioner who skippered a yacht across the Atlantic in a £150m cocaine smuggling plot has pleaded guilty to his part in the botched plot.

Three more people have been charged over an international drugs bust off the coast of Ireland last year.

Three more people have been charged in connection with an international drugs seizure off the Irish coast last year.

The three Englishmen arrested on board a yacht carrying €80m of cocaine off the West Cork coast in September, have been further remanded in custody.

A brainstorming session by representatives from seven nations 7 years ago was key to Wednesday’s €80m cocaine bust, writes Sean O’Riordan

THE VOYAGE

While the focus of a €82m cocaine seizure off the Cork coast has firmly shifted to Britain, gardaí are still trying to ascertain if the drugs shipment may have been unloaded here before being retransported across the water.