3 men charged over cocaine haul
Three British men have been charged in connection with the country's largest ever cocaine seizure.
They were arrested after nearly a billion euro worth of the drug was recovered from a luxury yacht off the West Cork coast last week.
Last Wednesday, gardai, the navy and customs officers swooped on a yacht called Dances With Waves 170 miles off the coast of West Cork.
They seized 75 bales of cocaine, worth an estimated three-quarters of a billion euro.
The boat had set sail from the Caribbean a month ago, and European anti-drug trafficking authorities had been tracking it across the Atlantic.
Three men were arrested in connection with the haul and they appeared at a special sitting of Clonakilty District Court last night.
52-year-old Philip Doo and 44-year-old David Mufford - both from Devon - and 42-year-old Christopher Wiggins - who's been living in Spain - were charged with the same offence of possession of drugs with intent to import.
Judge James McNulty remanded them in custody to appear before Kinsale District Court next Thursday.
