A MESSAGE on a Bebo social networking site to 'Get the right result' could have brought about the collapse of the trial.

WHEN the prosecution’s forensic expert Geraldine O’Neill recounted how she examined the hall-marked cocaine recovered from Dunlough Bay it was possible to make different calculations about the street value of the bales which had been floating in the Atlantic.

IT was a sophisticated international smuggling racket that came to grief off the coast of Ireland because someone didn’t know the difference between diesel and petrol.

The three Englishmen who were on trial in the biggest drugs crime in the history of the State were all convicted by a jury today after a day and a half of deliberations.

Jurors who have spent the Summer listening to over 300 witnesses in the €440-million cocaine trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court were sent away to a city hotel for the night and will resume their deliberations tomorrow.

Jurors who have spent the summer listening to over 300 witnesses in the €440m cocaine trial brought their overnight bags to Cork Circuit Criminal Court today.

The jury in the eight-week €440m cocaine trial today got its strongest warning yet from the trial judge about avoiding any external influences on them.

THE judge in the eight-week €440 million cocaine trial stood in front of the jury with a length of rope in his hands to explain the circumstantial evidence on which the prosecution is based.

The judge in the eight-week €440m cocaine trial stood in front of the jury today with a length of rope in his hands to explain the circumstantial evidence on which the prosecution is based.

THE prosecution in the €440 million west Cork cocaine trial was attacked as speculative, remote, fixated and incorrect, as lawyers for two of the defendants made their closing submissions to the jury yesterday.

The prosecution in the €440m cocaine trial was attacked as speculative, remote, fixated and incorrect as lawyers for two of the defendants made their closing submissions to the jury today.

THE lawyer defending one of the men accused in Ireland’s biggest ever drugs case said it was absurd to think that a bricklayer and family man from England could be involved in a drug crime on the scale that one would associate with the notorious Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar.

The lawyer defending one of the men in Ireland’s biggest ever drugs case said today it was absurd to think that a brick-layer and family man from England could be involved in a drug crime on the scale that one would associate with the notorious Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar.

The prosecution in the €440m cocaine trial made its closing address to the jury this afternoon and asked if it was possible to believe that the three accused men were simply unlucky.

One of the men accused of having €440m worth of cocaine in Dunlough Bay in West Cork last year claimed today that he had nothing to do with the crime and was pushed on to the boat carrying all the drugs.

The man who was rescued from the water where €440m worth of cocaine was also found claimed today the gardaí thought he was guilty just because he was in the water and that in fact he was on a walking holiday in west Cork where he visited the Buddhist centre and the church at Gougane Barra.

TWO of the men on trial in the biggest drugs case in the history of the state walked for hours across country and hid for two nights in a shed after seeing dozens of packages of drugs floating in the sea off the coast of west Cork last July.

Two of the men on trial in the biggest drugs case in the history of the State walked for hours across country and hid for two nights in a shed after seeing dozens of packages of drugs floating in the sea off the coast of West Cork last July.

ONE of the men on trial in the biggest drugs case in the history of the state had no inkling that drugs were being imported until he saw white packets floating in the sea that morning.

One of the men on trial in the biggest drugs case in the history of the State had no inkling that drugs were being imported until he saw white packets floating in the sea on the morning in question.

One of the men on trial in the biggest drugs trial in the history of the State watched the Cork v Kerry Munster Football Final with a farmer in West Cork last year, the day before €440m worth of cocaine was found in Dunlough Bay, it was claimed today.

THE jury in the biggest drugs trial in the history of the State will commence their seventh week at Cork Circuit Criminal Court on Monday knowing the end of the case is looming.

A former Detective Sergeant in the London Metropolitan drug squad is currently in custody in England on charges of trafficking 200 kilos of drugs six weeks ago – and this man is a brother of one of the men on trial in the €440m cocaine case in Cork, it emerged today.

One of the men on trial in Cork's €440m cocaine case challenged phone records today and claimed that the prosecution did not even believe that the accused bought or ever used the particular phone.

DNA evidence from a dental floss stick found in a jeep allegedly connected to the €440m-cocaine seizure was matched today with one of the accused who is on trial.

THE jury at the €440 million cocaine trial in Cork has been sent away for legal argument in their absence.

SPANISH police testified in Cork that they detained the Lucky Day yacht and arrested the two crewmen on board four days after €440 million worth of cocaine was discovered off the coast of west Cork.

Spanish police testified in Cork today that they detained the 'Lucky Day' yacht and arrested the two crewmen on board - four days after €440m worth of cocaine were discovered off the coast of West Cork.

One of the men on trial in relation to the recovery of €440m worth of cocaine off the West Cork coast had to make an emergency visit to a dentist in Cork two weeks before the drugs seizure and today the jury heard evidence from the dentist.

One of the men on trial in relation to the recovery of €440m worth of cocaine off the West Cork coast has a brother who was with the drug squad of the British Metropolitan Police, it emerged on the fourteenth day of the trial today.

The jury in Ireland’s biggest ever drugs trial were sent home until Monday and warned by the trial judge today to avoid reading media reports like the plague.

SOME "idiot" put diesel instead of petrol into the powerful engines on the rib boat found at the scene of the biggest drugs seizure in the history of the state, a jury was told.

Diesel instead of petrol was put into the powerful engines on the RIB boat that was found at the scene of the biggest drugs seizure in the history of the state, the expert who examined the wreckage said today.

An abandoned RIB-type boat was found at a pier in West Cork the day after the biggest drugs seizure in the history of the state in another bay in the area, one of the central investigating officers testified today on the seventh day of the trial.

TWO men on trial over Ireland’s biggest-ever drugs seizure were arrested after a garda found the pair walking among cattle on a west Cork country road, a court heard yesterday.

The €440m cocaine trial in Cork heard today that the first coastguard officer at the scene suspected it was a drugs drop gone wrong.

THE soaking-wet man who knocked on the door of a farmhouse in west Cork looking for help on the morning that €440 million worth of cocaine was found floating in choppy waters told the farmer who helped him not to alert the rescue services.

The man who emerged from the sea in West Cork on the morning that €440m worth of cocaine was found floating in choppy waters was given assistance at a local farmhouse and told the farmer there was no need to alert the rescue services - a judge and jury was told today.

A BOAT sank off the west Cork coast and €440 million worth of cocaine floated in the stormy waters as one man made it to a coastal farmhouse to alert the rescue services that another man was still in the sea.

The opening of the biggest drug trial in the history of the state got underway today with prosecuting senior counsel Tom Creed claiming that the cocaine seized in West Cork last year was found to be 75% pure, giving it a value of €440m and not €108m as originally thought.

THREE Englishmen have pleaded not guilty to charges relating to the seizure of more than €100 million worth of cocaine off the coast of west Cork last summer.

The biggest drugs trial in the history of the State relating to the seizure of over €100m worth of cocaine off the coast of West Cork last Summer commenced in Cork city today.

THE case of Ireland’s biggest drugs haul will not go to trial until May.

ALMOST 400 witnesses have made statements to gardaí in the case of the biggest drugs haul in Ireland, it emerged in court yesterday.