A good nose for crime: A day with Cork’s canine police

They are some of the sharpest sleuths in the Revenue Commissioners’ arsenal. Brian Canty goes to Cork Airport to learn how sniffer dogs go about their job

IF he didn’t like me back in Junior Cert., things weren’t about to change now, as my former schoolteacher Mr Tobin approached from my right, and Harvey, the country’s best sniffer dog, swooped from the other side. A collision course you couldn’t invent.

Truth be told, I was a brat in school. I’d hide the chalk, wedge the doorstop to keep an unwanted classroom visitor (like an English teacher) at bay. Simple stuff.