Men who bought West Cork trawler linked to cocaine haul 'hadn't a clue' about boats

Castletownbere fisherman said the men were 'tripping over ropes' and did not seem to know 'where to even put their feet'

The stranded boat off the coast of Blackwater, Wexford, which ran aground on a sandbank on Sunday night.

The two men who bought the trawler that ran aground off the Irish coast on Sunday night were “tripping over ropes” and appeared not to know anything about boats.

A fisherman from Castletownbere who remembers seeing the men briefly on Friday said: “They hadn’t a clue.”