One of the defendants charged in connection with last year's €440m cocaine haul in west Cork has denied all knowledge of the drugs.
Joe Daly, a 41-year-old bricklayer from Kent in England, is one of three defendants charged in relation to the find.
Mr Daly told the jury at Cork Circuit Criminal Court that he was a regular visitor to west Cork.
He said he went there twice last June at the request of his brother Michael, a former detective sergeant in the London drugs squad, who is in custody in England charged with drug trafficking.
The State alleges that the rigid inflatable boat which was found up-turned in Dunlough Bay surrounded by bales of cocaine last July was brought by ferry to Ireland by Joe Daly.
However, Mr Daly told the jury he had no knowledge of the drugs. He said he was woken on the morning of 2 July last year by a co-defendant, Perry Wharrie, and another man who told him his brother Michael was in trouble at sea.
When they arrived at Dunlough Bay Mr Daly said he saw the white packages floating in the sea and fled with Mr Wharrie as it did not look good. He was arrested two days later.
