Man jailed after cannabis worth €160,000 seized in Cork hotel car park

Welsh man had car specially adapted to transport drugs

Cork gardaí found cannabis worth €160,000 and €39,500 in cash.

Cork gardaí moved in on a drugs transaction taking place in the car park of the Radison Hotel at Little Island in Cork and uncovered a €160,000 stash of cannabis and a bag containing €39,500 in cash.

The man who imported the drug drove from his home in Wales to Blackpool in the UK where the eight kilos of cannabis were hidden in a secret compartment that was created under the backseats of his car. He then drove with the drugs by ferry from Stranraer to Larne and from Northern Ireland to Cork.