Eamon Dillon

It's all down to the money.

And I mean, like we know, we've heard that, you know, the crew members on board that the MV Royal were getting close to 140,000, that Gary Monks was... Euro.

Yeah, well, the equivalent of 140,000 euros, Philippine pesos, some that they were promised.

I was thinking it was 100...

€138,558 is the exact conversion.

It's a lot of money.

It is, yeah.

One of them had already been paid €80,000 of that and another being paid €7,000 of that.

This is all part of the mitigation that we heard.

And I suppose it kind of speaks to the motivation, but it's also, you know, again, you know, it just shows you as well, like the sheer organizational ability of like this crime group to put together, you know, a plot like this with so many various moving parts across various jurisdictions and to be able to recruit people, you know, to prey on the people with exactly the right weakness, but enough skills to possibly carry it off.

And you did make the point that, you know,

You know, it was a drug plot that was foiled, but I'd suggest it wasn't that just because seven of, we don't know how many people were involved, but I'm sure it was probably plus 30 people were involved.

So the fact that seven out of that amount for 44 million, possibly more cocaine to get that successfully landed into Ireland and spirited away.

And to the drug gang, totally dispensable workers.

it's a complete success.

You know, it's a total success.

Even if they have to, you know, send, you know, a grand a month to these guys' wives and girlfriends or whatever to keep everyone quiet.

And would they if they're honourable?

And even the four guys, like in, say, the cell that Gary Monks was part of, I mean, they more or less arrived in North Kerry separately to some extent.

No, he did travel, I think, with Costolo, but the other two guys arrived in separately.