Cocaine shipments a ‘constant risk’, says customs boss

IRELAND is going to get a share of the multi-tonne cocaine shipments constantly hitting the west coast of Europe, the customs drugs boss said yesterday.

Michael Colgan, head of customs drugs law enforcement, said this was a battle no EU country, including Ireland, could fight on its own.

He said this was why Ireland and six other EU countries on the west coast of Europe had joined forces in establishing a new, and permanent, agency tasked with intercepting maritime cocaine shipments.