Four Men in Custody After €31m Cocaine Seizure in Co Cork
Four men, including two Scottish, one English, and one German, are being questioned after the seizure of 443kgs of cocaine worth over €31 million in Co Cork. The drugs were intercepted during a joint operation involving gardaí, Revenue, and the Defence Forces.

Four men are still being questioned in connection with the seizure of cocaine worth more than €31 million in Co Cork yesterday. The seizure followed a co-ordinated Joint Task Force Drugs Interdiction operation involving gardaí, Revenue and the Defence Forces, both on land and at sea. The four men - two Scottish, one English and one German - and aged in their 30s and 40s, are being held at Bandon and Togher garda stations.
It is understood the drugs were transferred, under surveillance, from a rigid hulled inflatable boat (RHIB) into an English-registered van at Broadstrand at around 4am yesterday. The van, with two men in it - one Scottish, the other German - was intercepted near Courtmacsherry by members of the Garda Emergency Response Unit and armed officers from the Garda Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau.
An estimated 443kgs of cocaine - believed to have originated in South America and for the UK market - was seized and has since been sent to Dublin for analysis. Two other men on board the RHIB which left Broadstrand, were later arrested off the coast of Cork by armed members on board two Irish Naval Service RHIBs launched by LE William Butler Yeats (P63).
The two, one Scottish, the other English, were arrested by gardaí once P63 returned to its base at Haulbowline in Cork harbour yesterday afternoon. The RHIB was handed over to Revenue to be detained. It is the largest seizure of cocaine since the haul of 2.25 tonnes on the MV Mathew off the Cork coast in September 2023.
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