Gardaí shut down cocaine factory

GARDAÍ have tracked down and closed a sophisticated cocaine factory in Cork, which they believe supplied most of the northside of the city with the Class A drug.

A senior Garda spokesman described the seizure of compressors, mixing agents and vacuum packing equipment as a “very significant breakthrough” in the war against drugs.

Following a surveillance operation on Tuesday, detectives from the city’s Divisional Drugs Unit swooped on a house in The Glen area shortly before midnight.