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.

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.

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.

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.