Son jailed for drug activity in what court heard was 'bizarre case'

A son had taken over the cannabis operation set up by his late father to pay the mortgage, in what the Circuit Criminal Court heard was “a bizarre case”.

The “highly sophisticated cannabis operation” at Rathmore on the Cork border, was one of the main suppliers of cannabis in Killarney, and was funding the family mortgage as well as debts from a failed business, the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee was told.