Three Irishmen held in Ibiza drug-trafficking swoop

THREE Irishmen and nine Britons are being held in Ibiza as part of a major police swoop against drug traffickers on the party island.

Huge batches of the type of ecstasy pill linked to the death of 20-year-old Briton Jodie Nieman were among substances seized in a string of raids. She had been clubbing at the Space nightclub in the Playa d’en Bossa and suffered a heart attack in July.

Spanish officers were targeting a gang suspected of travelling from Britain to Ibiza in a bid to profit from the island’s population of clubbers.