An elaborate operation to grow cannabis in a Co Cork industrial unit, with about €800,000 worth of plants and a potential value approaching €10m, was discovered by gardaí.

Three men are due in court in Co Tipperary charged in connection with the discovery of a cannabis grow house in Co Cork earlier this week.

The people of Youghal in East Cork, who have suffered from the vagaries of relying on multinational firms, are using their local talent and ability to try to beat the recession, writes Claire O’Sullivan

THE Government has been accused of abandoning a once thriving manufacturing town which lost its last major factory yesterday.