American tourist finds €50K of drugs washed up on a beach in Mayo

A US tourist found a package filled with cocaine on a beach in Mayo - with gardaí later confirming that the discovery was worth around €50,000.

Tommy Schlather was on Achill Island, reports the Irish Times, when he stumbled upon an item "the size of an old cassette tape and covered in black and yellow tape".

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Gardai took the package away and seemingly later confirmed its worth as well as the substance in question: cocaine.

No other suspicious packages were found.