{"id":490433,"date":"2026-06-09T10:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/490433\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:21:10","slug":"cork-gaeltacht-growhouse-with-sophisticated-cannabis-farm-busted-by-gardai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/490433\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork Gaeltacht growhouse with sophisticated cannabis farm busted by Gardai"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost \u20ac100k in ready-to-harvest plants hidden under rural roof<\/p>\n

08:27, 09 Jun 2026Updated 08:57, 09 Jun 2026<\/p>\n

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Hidden under the roof of the rural dwelling outside Ballyvourney(Image: An GS)<\/p>\n

It may be better known as a picturesque pocket of the Irish language, the area around Ballyvourney in Co Cork that is home to a thriving community of native language speakers.<\/p>\n

However, the townland of Ballymakeera has also been hiding a sophisticated cannabis growhouse, that was busted by Gardai yesterday by officers who found akmost \u20ac100,000 worth of mature plants that looked ready to harvest.<\/p>\n

Gardai said: “As part of Operation Tara and ongoing investigations targeting the sale and supply of controlled drugs & organized crime, Garda\u00ed attached to the Cork North West Divisional Drugs Unit, accompanied by the Cork South West Divisional Drugs Unit conducted a search of a domestic residence in the Ballymakeera area of Co. Cork today Monday 8th June”.<\/p>\n

During the course of the operation, Garda\u00ed uncovered a sophisticated Cannabis grow house.<\/p>\n

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Growhouse at Ballymakeera(Image: An GS)<\/p>\n

Investigating Garda\u00ed seized 122 mature Cannabis plants with an estimated value of \u20ac97,600, approximately 1 kilogram of suspected loose Cannabis material with an estimated value of \u20ac20,000, and drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n

An adult male (aged in his 40s) was arrested and is currently detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996 at a Garda Station in the Southern Region.<\/p>\n

The seized substances will be sent to Forensic Science Ireland (FSI) for analysis.”<\/p>\n

Gardai say investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost \u20ac100k in ready-to-harvest plants hidden under rural roof 08:27, 09 Jun 2026Updated 08:57, 09 Jun 2026 Hidden…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7782,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-490433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-gardai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}