Customs officers in Ireland have sized 2,253kg of suspected cocaine – which could be worth 157 million euros (£136m).
The haul was seized from a cargo vessel off the southeast coast of Ireland.
It comes after an elite Irish army unit stormed the Panamanian ship.
Speaking at a media briefing in Dublin on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Irish police service An Garda Siochana said: “This is the largest drug seizure in the history of the State.”
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