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.

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