One of the worst-hit places was the village of Schull in West Cork where fire services were drafted in to help drain the streets.

Hogan and Ferry make two singular, celebrated kinds of hard cheese, 'Desmond' and 'Gabriel': the former, which adopts the old term for the county of the Irish Riviera, is sharp, with a bite like an aged Irish parmesan; the latter, named for the mountain that looms over the romantic little seaside town of Schull at the south-western tip of the country, is more ethereal and subtle.

Two more men in their 40s were found in Schull, Co Cork, close to the remote Mizen Head peninsula on the most southern tip of Ireland where the drugs bales washed ashore.