Dunlough bay seizure among world’s largest

THE Dunlough bay haul put Ireland on the world cocaine map.

Dunlough bay seizure among world’s largest

That seizure of 1.5 tonnes of cocaine was one of the 10 largest single hauls of cocaine in the world in 2007.

“It was definitely a very large seizure. It wasn’t the biggest, but it was very big,” said Thomas Pietchmann, research officer at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and main author of the World Drug Report 2008.

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