Man's 'click and go' drugs operation subverts West Cork's honesty box tradition, judge says

The court was told the accused admitted he had been selling cannabis since October 2020 during the second covid lockdown.

The court heard that gardaí found 14 packages of cannabis weighing half a kilo in the defendant's rucksack. File photo

A sentencing judge said that the beautiful rural tradition of the honesty box was subverted by a man leaving cannabis in jam jars for customers at 40 locations throughout West Cork and now he has been remanded in custody for sentencing for drug-dealing.

Detective Garda Shannon Ryan testified that drugs unit gardaí became aware that cannabis was being stored in a wooded area off a remote country road near Timoleague, County Cork.