Man caught with cannabis grow tent gets €500 fine

Gardaí with a warrant carried out a search at a house on Dublin Street in Blackpool and found over €5,000 worth of drugs, some of them in a grow tent set up with a special light and extractor fan.

That was two years ago, and yesterday at Cork District Court, Judge Con O’Leary noted that the accused man, Noel Darcy, had gone from being a medium risk for re-offending to being a low risk.

The judge said in all the circumstances he would finalise the case with fines totalling €500 against Darcy, 26, for cultivating cannabis and having it for sale or supply.