Man arrested after cannabis found growing in sunny West Cork

Good summer weather and a bit of strategic watering led to a bumper crop of cannabis for a 64-year-old man, but unfortunately for him, it was the boys in blue who ended up harvesting it.

Acting on intelligence received, gardaí from the Cork West Divisional Drugs Unit swooped on a house in Skibbereen, but didn’t find the plants inside.

Instead they were somewhat surprised to find 150 plants in an adjoining field. The plants appeared to have grown very quickly in the humid weather and were very close to harvesting.