Cork community group used tracking device to trace missing hanging baskets

Gardaí found all six hanging baskets of flowers and the tracking device at the home of a Carrigaline woman

The woman faces a charge of possession of stolen flower baskets — each valued at €30. File picture: Denis Minihane

A community group who had hanging baskets of flowers stolen on a previous occasion decided to put a tracking device in one basket last summer and when six more baskets went missing they were tracked to the home of a Carrigaline woman.

These were the allegations made at Cork District Court in the case against 45-year-old Mary O’Driscoll of 18 Brookhill, Ballea Road, Carrigaline, County Cork, who faces a charge of possession of stolen flower baskets — each valued at €30.