Mid to high earners who ‘want to party’ fuel cocaine trade

The Kinahan drug cartel is a main driver in the surge of cocaine coming into Europe and Ireland’s middle- and high-income earners are “fuelling” the trade here, garda sources have said.

Detectives told the Irish Examiner it was good that the role played by the Kinahan cartel in the drugs trade had been publicly stated in a major report by EU drugs and police agencies.