‘Mother lode’ of killer drug found in garda probe

Gardaí believe they have found what could be “the mother lode” of a potentially lethal drug which may already have claimed the lives of two young men.

Garda sources believe a worried dealer may have decided to dump about 12 ounces of the drug, known on the streets as Mandy, because “the heat was coming on” following the deaths of Liam Coffey and his friend Michael Coleman, whose bodies were found in a house in Kinsale last Sunday morning.

Up to 60 gardaí have been working flat out to clear the drug from the streets of Cork in the knowledge that further deaths could result if they do not.