Cocaine RIB had 'unusually big engines', court hears

Diesel instead of petrol was put into the powerful engines on the RIB boat that was found at the scene of the biggest drugs seizure in the history of the state, the expert who examined the wreckage said today.

Ireland’s biggest-ever drugs trial related to drugs with an estimated value of €440m has heard extensive evidence today in relation to the semi-submerged boat that was found in Dunlough Bay in West Cork on July 2, 2007.