'Drugs mothership': Gardaí seek detention of four men arrested in Kerry 

“Vast resources” have been deployed in the course of the investigation, Chief Superintendent Seamus Boland of the National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau said

Gardaí have a warrant to extend the period of detention up to an additional 72 hours. The application is under Section 53 of the Criminal Justice Act.

Four men arrested in the early hours of Monday on suspicion of assisting organised crime in the importation of controlled drugs from “a mothership” off the coast of Kerry have had their period of detention extended.

The men are being held in Killarney and Tralee Garda stations and include a Serbian national, with an address in Manchester; a man with an address in Derry; and two men with addresses in Glasgow.