The Year in Review: July

JULY 2

Almost a tonne of the class A drug, wrapped in 61 bales, was retrieved from Dunlough Bay, north of Mizen Head in west Cork, after a botched early-morning drugs run. The recovered drugs were valued at €107 million.

Customs officials believe two men set out early in the morning in a rigid inflatable boat to rendezvous with another vessel — possibly a yacht from the Caribbean — in a so-called coopering operation.