Date set for €100m drugs trial

THE case of Ireland’s biggest drugs haul will not go to trial until May.

The case, involving the sinking of a boat at Dunlough Bay, Mizen, Goleen, Co Cork, last July and the recovery of an estimated €100 million worth of cocaine, was before Cork Circuit Criminal Court for mention yesterday.

Prosecution counsel Tom Creed asked Judge Patrick J Moran to list the case for trial on May 21 at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.