7% cocaine may have been for Oxegen

GARDAÍ yesterday said the quality of cocaine seized in a haul of the drug on Wednesday was “extremely low” and was only about 7% pure.

Detectives said the 20kg of cocaine found in a property in Celbridge, Co Kildare, may have been destined for this weekend’s Oxegen music festival in Punchestown, Co Kildare.

The Garda National Drugs Unit (GNDU) recovered the drugs during a raid on what turned out to be a cocaine processing factory at Simmonstown Manor, Celbridge, late on Wednesday. The GNDU also searched a house in Clondalkin, west Dublin.