{"id":85402,"date":"2025-09-25T20:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/85402\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T20:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:03:10","slug":"man-appears-in-court-over-e400000-cannabis-seizure-at-his-cork-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/85402\/","title":{"rendered":"Man appears in court over \u20ac400,000 cannabis seizure at his Cork home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">The seizure of \u20ac400,000 worth of cannabis by garda\u00ed at a house in Kerry Pike, Co Cork, resulted in a 23-year-old man being arrested and brought before Cork District Court today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Garda\u00ed allegedly seized 20 kilos of cannabis at the house at lunchtime on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Detective Garda Derry O\u2019Brien testified that he arrested Rory McLaughlin and charged him with possession of cannabis and having the illegal drug for the purpose of sale or supply to others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The charges both relate to his home at Pike Lodge, Kerry Pike, Co Cork, on September 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">When arrested, charged, and cautioned at Gurranabraher Garda Station, Mr McLaughlin made no reply to the two charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The detective said there was no objection to the accused being remanded on bail on conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Those conditions require him to sign on three times a week at Gurranabraher Garda Station and not to apply for any travel documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">It was confirmed that he had surrendered his passport already.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Judge Mary Dorgan added: \u201cHe should not leave jurisdiction without further order of the court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The defendant\u2019s phone was seized as part of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Another bail condition requires him to get a new phone within 24 hours, at which he will be contactable by An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na at all times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">On the application of Sergeant John Kelleher, the case was adjourned by Judge Dorgan until January 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The reason for the lengthy adjournment was because the suspected drugs have to be sent to Forensic Science Ireland for analysis, and there is a backlog of cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The DPP will then have to give directions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Solicitor Frank Buttimer was appointed to represent the 23-year-old on free legal aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The seizure of \u20ac400,000 worth of cannabis by garda\u00ed at a house in Kerry Pike, Co Cork, resulted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,2013,27,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-85402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-cork-court","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85402","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=85402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}