Dog used to fend off garda drug search

A German shepherd was used to fend off a Garda drugs search by a man who chewed up and swallowed a large quantity of cannabis grass in a Citroen Berlingo.

The culprit was jailed for four months yesterday for obstruction of a drugs search.

Judge Olann Kelleher imposed that jail term on Stephen McCarthy, aged 35, at Farnahoe, Innishannon, Co Cork.