Bilingual barrister comes to aid of 'nervous' translator in Special Criminal Court

Ten men arrested in Tragumna and Leap, West Cork, charged in connection with drugs offences

Raul Tabares Garcia, aged 48, of Cadiz in Spain, will have a date for trial set on July 21. Picture: Chani Anderson

A bilingual barrister came to the rescue at the Special Criminal Court today when a "nervous" interpreter on his first day struggled to translate for a group of Spanish men charged with drug offences.

The three-judge court was expecting to be updated on whether a group of six men would require trial dates for allegedly conspiring to import a large quantity of drugs into Ireland.