One of a group of people arrested and charged in connection with an alleged cocaine-extraction laboratory has been refused bail.

Four people arrested and charged in connection with an alleged cocaine extraction laboratory will remain in Garda custody ahead of a court date next week.

Snipe, the Garda drugs dog, sniffed out €13,000 worth of cannabis being grown in a field by a 59-year-old Inchigeelagh farmer with an “alternative lifestyle”.

A judge said one would want to be “blind, deaf, and dumb” not to conclude that texts to and from a man in Dunmanway, Co Cork, were evidence of drug dealing.