Ireland’s Biggest Drug Bust | Inside The €157 Million Cocaine Seizure
The story of how eight men have been jailed over Ireland’s largest drugs seizure, made in 2023 after Irish soldiers dramatically intercepted a fleeing cargo ship. Eight men have been sentenced to a combined 129 years in prison for their role in a drug trafficking operation that resulted in the largest cocaine seizure in the history of the State. Justice Melanie Greally initially imposed headline sentences totalling 203 years at the Special Criminal Court today, but reduced each sentence due to multiple mitigating factors, including the defendants’ guilty pleas. The MV Matthew, owned by a Dubai-based company, was boarded at gunpoint by Ireland’s elite Army Ranger Wing in rough seas off the Cork coast in September 2023. The Mirror Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailymirror The Mirror IG: http://instagram.com/dailymirror The Mirror TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dailymirror The Mirror Twitter: http://twitter.com/DailyMirror Sign up for our newsletters: https://www.mirror.co.uk/email #TheMirror #News #Politics Credit to : The Mirror