A 25 kilo bale of cocaine was pulled from the sea off the Cork coast today believed to be part the country's largest ever drugs seizure.
Gardai said the huge package, thought to be worth €1.75 million, was found in Dunlough Bay at approximately 11am.
It is thought to be part of the massive €200 million consignment of cocaine which was recovered from Atlantic waters north of Mizen Head, west Cork in July.
Four Englishmen have been charged in connection with the haul. Gardai from Bantry Station made the latest discovery and the drugs have been sent for analysis at the Forensic Science Laboratory in Dublin.
It is understood the cocaine was dumped into treacherous seas near Mizen Head after a vessel carrying the drugs haul was hit by severe weather conditions.
Rigid inflatable boats were also capsized in the heavy seas and the four men were arrested within days.