The Irish Navy is tiny, and there are countless inlets and bays which a smuggler could use. One popular drug smuggling route is Colombia -> up the coast of West

The Irish Navy is tiny, and there are countless inlets and bays which a smuggler could use. One popular drug smuggling route is Colombia -> up the coast of West Africa -> Ireland, and then onwards to the UK market. There was a famous incident a few years back where a relatively small boat deployed from a 'mothership'; sank in high seas (heh), dumping its cargo of hundreds of millions of cocaine into the water. Locals were finding bales of coke worth €1.75m each on the beaches in the area. If you look at what has been intercepted, and what must get through to the end market, then billions of Euros worth of the drug must be smuggled through Ireland/Irish waters. http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/icrime/wild-coast-sinks-drugs-delivery-36333.html http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/icrime/wild-coast-sinks... http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/cocaine-in-yacht-seizure-off-cork-so-pure-it-s-worth-350-million-30995222.html http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/cocaine-in-yacht-s... http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/jul/08/drugsandalcohol.drugstrade http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/jul/08/drugsandalcohol.dr...