Man tells Cork court he was using €20k of cannabis to make soup

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin imposed a jail term of two years with the last year suspended.

A Nigerian man caught with cannabis with an estimated street value of €20,000 told gardaí it was a completely different type of material to normal cannabis and that he was using it to make soup.

Eddy Osagie, 50, was caught with two packets of the paste-like material in a cereal box inside another bag in his car when it was stopped by gardaí.