Gardaí believe they have taken out key transportation route for cocaine smugglers

Some of the drugs worth €10.5m, which were found in an a lead-lined compartment, which found when a truck and trailer were searched at Rosslare Europort on Monday. Picture: An Garda Síochána/PA 

Gardaí believe they have taken out a key transportation route for the smuggling of “bulk loads” of cocaine into the country.

One of the tactics being adopted by gardaí is to remove the truck drivers providing transportation services for drug smuggling, as it causes “maximum disruption” — it not only shuts down a supply route, but also deprives multiple organised crime groups of their product.