A man banned under the Sex Offenders Act from entering school buildings was caught at a girl’s secondary school asking about how he could access the area for "18-to- 22-year-olds".

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.