Wild coast sinks drugs delivery

SEARCH teams went into a wild sea off the west Cork coast yesterday morning looking for another casualty of the unforgiving waves.

They ended up discovering a huge drugs consignment — one of the biggest in the State’s history — as it became clear that an attempt to bring contraband ashore via the south-west coast had gone spectacularly wrong.

Little did the Goleen and Castletownbere lifeboat crews know as they put out to sea, after the alarm was raised by a man who had swam ashore from an upturned inflatable rib, that they were about to stumble upon up to €200 million worth of cocaine.