'Let’s go get my coke!': People descend on Wexford beach on cocaine hunt after ship seized

After the MV Matthew was seized, whispers rang around the coast that the ship's rumoured cargo — bales of cocaine worth millions of euro — had been dumped in the sea

The hopeful and the merely curious gathered at Ballyconnigar beach in Co Wexford after the rumour went out that a multimillion-euro haul of cocaine had been dumped in the sea. File picture

Binoculars swung around necks as curious — and hopeful — groups of people took to Wexford’s beaches and headlands, hunting for errant cocaine bales from a stranded boat. 

Two men were arrested on Sunday night on drug trafficking charges after they were winched to safety from a fishing trawler that got stuck on a sandbank some 12km off the coast from Rosslare.