An undercover garda made contact with a cocaine dealer and arranged to make controlled purchases of the drug from him on the instruction that the garda should refer on the phone to €100 deals as gallons.

A man charged with selling cocaine at three locations in Cork and having ecstasy for sale at a fourth signed a plea of guilty to all counts yesterday.

A man charged with selling cocaine at three locations in Cork and having ecstasy for sale at a fourth signed a plea of guilty to all counts yesterday.