A 22-year-old man, being held in connection with the seizure of cocaine in Co Cork, has had his period of detention extended by 72-hours.
He was arrested in the grounds of Bantry Hospital on Monday on suspicion of committing a drugs offence. He initially told gardaí he had been fishing in a boat that had overturned.
61 bales of cocaine, worth almost €107m, were later recovered floating in the sea in Dunlough Bay by customs officials.
It is understood the man being held made the 999 call which brought gardaí to the area where the drugs were found.
Macroom District Court was told that gardaí needed more time to question the man as he had so far made no reply to any of the questions put to him.
Gardaí said they also needed to confirm the man's identity and needed time to get forensic results on two vehicles recovered, one at Dunlough Bay and another at Crookhaven.
Judge James McNulty was told that 'significant items' were recovered yesterday from a house in Kilcrohane Co Cork. One of the items seized was a satellite communications system.
The court was also told that the man had volunteered a name and address in Liverpool to gardaí, but this turned out to be false.
He also had a false passport, obtained from a non existent solicitors' office in the UK, which was in the name of a child who had died at birth.
Two men arrested
Two men in their 40s were earlier arrested as part of the investigation into what is the largest drug seizure in the history of the State.
They were detained in the Schull area this morning and are now in custody at Bandon Garda Headquarters. They can be held for up to seven days.
They were described as being dishevelled and weak but offered no resistance when arrested just before 9am this morning by gardaí on a road at Gubeen, five miles west of Schull.
Up to 50 gardaí are now involved in the widening investigation and are in contact with police forces in the UK, Spain, South Africa and the US.
A total of three people are now in custody in connection with the seizure. A fourth man who was rescued from the sea at Dunlough Bay on Monday remains under garda watch at Bantry General Hospital. He is said to be in a comfortable condition.
The drugs were retrieved after an overloaded rigid inflatable boat capsized in bad weather conditions.
Gardaí believe an English drug trafficking gang are responsible for the attempt to bring the drugs into Ireland.
Weather conditions are hampering further off shore searches in Dunlough Bay by naval personnel and customs officers. But a team of 15 custom officials are continuing to forensically examine the shoreline.
The naval vessel, LE Orla, remains at the scene.
