Cork drugs inquiry: Detention periods extended

Gardaí have obtained a 47-hour extension to allow them to continue to question two Englishmen arrested last week in connection with the €100m cocaine discovery near Mizen Head in West Cork.

At a special sitting of Clonakilty District Court last night, Chief Supt Kevin Ludlow said that a number of lines of inquiry were on-going and that gardaí needed the extra time in order to receive the results of these inquiries and put them to two prisoners in interview.