Drugs squad gardaí chased a man through several back gardens after they uncovered his €5,000 stash of heroin and cocaine at waste ground.

Cocaine worth €47,000 was found concealed in the wheels and frame of a travel bag brought into Cork Airport on a flight from Portugal.

A Corkman wanted by gardaí for carrying €70,000 cocaine through the city nine years ago was extradited from Spain after being arrested there recently for a minor drugs offence.

A Ballincollig man jailed earlier this year for a carefully planned drug-dealing operation returned to court yesterday declaring that he wanted his money back.

Smoke rose from a car after a 10-mile drive to get away from gardaí and when it came to halt at a roadblock over €56,000 worth of cannabis and cocaine were found in the car.

A young woman who was caught in a taxi with €70,000 worth of cocaine was jailed yesterday for six years with half of the sentence suspended.

The former Funky Skunk proprietor in Cork who paid 150 Canadian dollars (€98) for a psychoactive drug and packaged it for sale in packets with a total retail price of over €30,000, was convicted and fined €15,000 yesterday and bound to the peace for three years.

A woman who was caught in a taxi with €70,000 worth of cocaine against a background of drugs in her family home wept and spoke of her terror of going to prison yesterday.

GARDAÍ stopped a car near the Jack Lynch tunnel as it arrived in Cork with €215,000 worth of cannabis in the boot and yesterday the man responsible for the shipment was jailed for six years.

A CORK man who was seriously involved in the drug trade for profit was jailed for eight years yesterday.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the case of two men who claim they were “stitched up” by gardaí for the possession of heroin worth €43,000 in a wooded area in Co Cork over two years ago.

Two Dubliners who were caught going to a stash of heroin worth €43,000 in a wooded area in Glanmire, Co Cork, were jailed for 12 years today.

DRUGS squad gardaí working in co-operation with their British counterparts smashed a drug-smuggling operation where a gang consisting of criminals from England and South America were attempting to set up a new system for getting cocaine into Ireland.

A MAN who was caught with more than €1 million worth of cannabis resin in Cork was given an eight-year jail sentence with the second half of that suspended yesterday.

A MAJOR dealer, active in a multi-million euro drugs enterprise in Cork city for more than 20 years, has been jailed for 12 years, with the last five years of the sentence suspended.

A major drug dealer who has been active in a multi-million euro drugs enterprise in Cork city for over twenty years was jailed today for twelve years with the last five years of that sentence suspended today.

A DRUG dealer’s claim that ecstasy tablets were being sold for €2 or less was rejected by a jury which returned a unanimous guilty verdict after more than an hour of deliberation.

A KEEN young sportsman who was worried about his mortgage repayments was caught with the biggest seizure of heroin ever made in Cork city and yesterday he was given a suspended six-year jail sentence.

A mini-cocaine factory was raided by drugs squad gardaí in Cork city and today the man who was making a living out of wholesale drug-dealing was jailed for ten years with the last two years suspended.

A sentence of ten years, with the last two years suspended, was imposed today on a man who was caught in a €100,000 ecstasy transaction in a remote area of County Cork.

A three-piece suite of furniture lined with more than €300,000 worth of vacuum-packed cannabis resin was flown in to Cork from South Africa and this evening a man who was caught unpacking it at a flat in the city was jailed for seven years.

A German who believed it was easier to get cocaine into London by coming through Cork was sentenced to five years with the last three years suspended today.

A CRACK cocaine dealer was caught by a drugs squad surveillance operation in Cork city and yesterday he was jailed for four years.

A hospital porter turned an apartment into a cocaine factory with a multi-million euro earning potential after meeting an Irishman in Thailand who told him how to go about it – and this evening he was jailed for twelve years.

A Polish man who was caught with €1.4m worth of cocaine hidden in his car in Cork city last year was today jailed for six years.

A driver of a van loaded with almost E5m worth of ecstasy tablets destined for the Cork drugs market was sentenced to 24 years in prison this evening.