Cocaine find: Gardaí get an extra 48 hours to quiz duo

GARDAÍ investigating last week’s record €107 million cocaine haul were examining fresh evidence last night recovered from the seabed off Cork.

The discovery of “items of interest” in Dunlough Bay, close to where the drugs were found last Monday, was made just hours before gardaí were granted an extra 48 hours to question two men who were arrested outside Schull on Wednesday in connection with the haul.

The two — Perry Wharrie, also known as Stephen Brown, with an address in Essex, and Joe Daly, with an address in Kent — were brought before Clonakilty District Court just after 9.45pm.