Man charged after €1m of cocaine seized at Cork Airport
A man in his 30s was charged after customs officers seized cocaine worth an estimated €1 million at Cork Airport on the morning of Monday 31 August 2026.
Revenue's customs officers, helped by the Cork City Divisional Drugs Unit, stopped and searched the man and found a number of packages of cocaine. He was arrested at the airport and held at a Garda station in Cork under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996.
He was due before Cork District Court on Wednesday 2 September 2026. The drugs were sent to Forensic Science Ireland for analysis, and investigations are ongoing.