'Drug smugglers can come and go as they like in West Cork due to lack of checks' 

Local representatives and mariners alike say drug runners have free rein on the south west coast, and the depleted Naval Service is unable to catch them 

Former Baltimore RNLI coxswain Kieran Cotter suggests that drug smugglers don't need to find obscure coves to land their cargo, and that they could openly moor and unload at the pier in Baltimore harbour due to the lack of checks.  

West Cork native Joe Carroll is a great man for straight-talking, and he’s not short of an opinion when it comes to the importation of drugs along the coastline.

“If you see shells, you’ll find eggs,” the Fianna Fáil county councillor quips when asked about drug smuggling in his constituency.