At Dublin Airport on a September morning, the ordinary surface of a bag of lollipops gave way to something far more consequential — eleven pounds of cocaine, worth over half a million dollars, carried by a man in his sixties arriving from Brazil. The discovery, made by revenue officers working alongside drug enforcement specialists, is one thread in a larger tapestry being unraveled by Ireland's Economic Crime Bureau under Operation Skein. It is a reminder that the routes of global commerce and the routes of organized crime are often indistinguishable until someone looks closely enough.