{"id":302248,"date":"2026-01-25T01:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/302248\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T01:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:48:08","slug":"two-men-in-court-charged-over-seizure-of-e670000-drugs-in-cork-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/302248\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men in court charged over seizure of \u20ac670,000 drugs in Cork \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two men have appeared in court charged in connection with the seizure of drugs with a total street value of \u20ac670,000 by garda\u00ed<\/a> in Cork<\/a> city earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Daniel Collins and Derek Kavanagh were brought before a special sitting of Mallow District Court on Saturday following two seizures by members of the Cork City Divisional Drugs Squad.<\/p>\n

Mr Collins (25), of Coole East, White\u2019s Cross, Cork, was charged with four offences arising from the seizure of \u20ac60,000 worth of cannabis by garda\u00ed after a vehicle stop.<\/p>\n

The charges include possession of cannabis for sale of supply and driving without tax and insurance at North Monastery Road, Cork, on January 22nd. <\/p>\n

Det Garda Pat O\u2019Sullivan, of the Cork City Divisional Drugs Squad, said Mr Collins made no reply to any of the charges after caution.<\/p>\n

He said garda\u00ed had no objection to bail on conditions. Mr Collins\u2019s solicitor, Eddie Burke, said his client was happy to abide by the bail conditions being sought by garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n

Insp Triona O\u2019Mahony said garda\u00ed wanted an adjournment to Cork District Court on April 22nd.<\/p>\n

Judge Elizabeth Healy remanded Mr Collins to that date and made it a condition of his bail that he must reside at his address at Coole East, White\u2019s Cross, and abide by an 11pm to 7am curfew.<\/p>\n

He must sign on daily at Gurranebraher Garda station, surrender his passport and provide garda\u00ed with a mobile phone to be contactable at all hours.<\/p>\n

His co-accused, Derek Kavanagh (31), of Arderin Way, the Glen, Cork, was charged over the seizure of \u20ac610,000 worth of cannabis in a follow-up search in Cork on the same day.<\/p>\n

He was charged by Det Garda Rory Fogarty with possession of cannabis for sale or supply at Arderin Way, the Glen, Cork, on January 22nd.<\/p>\n

Det Garda Fogarty, of the Cork City Divisional Drugs Squad, told the court Mr Kavanagh made no reply to either charge after caution.<\/p>\n

He said garda\u00ed were objecting to bail for Mr Kavanagh. The accused man\u2019s solicitor, Padraig O\u2019Connell, said his client would not be applying for bail at this point.<\/p>\n

Det Garda Fogarty said garda\u00ed have not yet received directions from the Director of Public Prosecutions. He said he expects the matter will be dealt with on indictment.<\/p>\n

Insp O\u2019Mahony said garda\u00ed were seeking a remand in custody to appear before Cork District Court on January 27th. Judge Healy remanded Mr Kavanagh to appear on that date by video link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have appeared in court charged in connection with the seizure of drugs with a total street…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,1877,13959,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-302248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-cork","12":"tag-director-of-public-prosecutions","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-featured-news","15":"tag-featurednews","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115953225124415268","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}