Eight men jailed for 129 years after record €157m cocaine seizure off Cork coast

Crew members from five countries were sentenced to a combined 129 years following a dramatic army-led raid on a ship linked to a global drug cartel

Eight men have been sentenced to a combined 129 years in prison for their role in a drug trafficking operation that resulted in the largest cocaine seizure in the history of the State.

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