Homegrown cannabis factories are generating massive profits for Irish and foreign gangs, with figures indicating growhouses uncovered by gardaí are capable of producing around €100m worth of the drug every year.

The above photographs of an industrial plant outside Tullamore show the sheer sophistication of a professional cannabis factory.

TO one seasoned community worker, who is far from a scaremonger, the cannabis now is not cannabis as previous generations know it.

Gardaí have discovered a cannabis grow house in Co Clare, it has emerged.