The gang was being monitored locally by Cork drug units, nationally by the Garda Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau and Customs, and internationally by the EU’s Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre.

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Sinn Féin today called on the public to join up to 50 nationwide protest marches over the crisis in health care.