Nicola Tallent

It's probably, once it's landed, it's broken up and it's transported in as many different ways.

And when it's landed, that's the point that law enforcement are really chasing their tails because they're not going to seize the big cargo products.

they're going to have to follow various trucks or Jeeps or whatever it is that's moving them.

But this one is a third one of these big shipments that are kind of come to our notice with the Gardaí over a short period of time.

The first one being the MV Matthew, which was a very successful operation by the Gardaí and the Army Ranger Wing.

And it was...

It was on foot of intelligence coming in from various different countries and presumably Europol or what's the maritime intelligence service.

So in that case, the MV Matthew was tracked and the army rangers ultimately, the ship behaved bizarrely.

There was all sorts of things going on with the captain and people were losing their nerve and there was definitely instructions coming from Dubai at that stage as to what

to do.

And in actual fact, the instructions were, because the Irish Gardaí had copped that this ship was containing cocaine, it was run like hell.

Do not give up the cargo.

Just get out of Irish waters.

There was wrong instructions given that Irish could only police to a certain, you know, if they could get it offshore.

Exactly.

So that was the MV Matthew and we've gone over that quite a bit.

But there was another one.

Yeah, there have been.

But in between the MV Matthew and the MV Royal is another ship called the Cool Explorer.

Now, seven people arrested of the 10 have pleaded guilty in this case, and there's another three still before the courts.