5 years for €6m drugs bust on yacht

A Cork businessman has been given a five-year jail sentence in Spain after authorities there had seized a yacht carrying €6m of cannabis.

Alan Buckley, 59, who is from the Douglas area, had been arrested shortly after Spanish navy officers boarded the yacht off Cadiz in late August 2012.

Security sources confirmed that Buckley, who loved the party lifestyle and expensive cars, had been recently handed a five-year and 10-day sentence in Spanish courts for his role in the drug smuggling operation.