'Some idiot put diesel in rib's petrol engine and it ended up on the rocks'

SOME "idiot" put diesel instead of petrol into the powerful engines on the rib boat found at the scene of the biggest drugs seizure in the history of the state, a jury was told.

The trial yesterday heard extensive evidence in relation to the semi-submerged boat found in Dunlough Bay in west Cork on July 2 last year.

Cross-examining the prosecution expert who examined the boat, defence counsel Blaise O'Carroll said: "Some idiot put diesel into it when he should have put petrol in it and the engine lost its power and ended up on rocks."