Irish gangs involved in 'large-scale' cocaine trafficking from South America  

Almost 2.8 tonnes of cocaine have been seized by Customs in Ireland so far this year. Picture: iStock

Irish gangs are among a growing number of networks in Europe involved in “large- scale” cocaine trafficking from South America.

The EU drugs agency said these European gangs “tend to pool their resources” in a network of co-operation, which investigators suspect is the case in the two-tonne importation intercepted off the Cork coast.