84m Cork cocaine haul

Monday 30 September 1996 23:02 BST

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Gardai said they had seized the largest cocaine haul in the history of Ireland over the weekend.

The drugs, with a street value of up to pounds 84m, were found in a converted Norwegian trawler sheltering from heavy gales in a port in Cork, southern Ireland; the winds had forced the Sea Mist from its route between Venezuela and northern Europe. Four people are being held. Reuter - Dublin

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