Kinahan cartel 'no longer the dominant force it was once', says top garda 

Justin Kelly says there seems to be an ‘insatiable appetite’ for cocaine in Ireland, writes Security Correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe

Assistant Commissioner Justin Kelly, head of organised and serious crime: The Kinahan and Hutch gangs ‘are just two organised crime groups, we have other OCGs. That is sort of lost on people. Our focus is on other groups and particularly emerging ones'. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins 

Barely a week goes by without reports of massive and, in some cases, record seizures of cocaine across Europe, including Ireland.

Two weeks ago, Dutch authorities found eight tonnes of cocaine in Rotterdam port, the biggest to date. They were hidden in containers carrying bananas arriving from Ecuador.