Criminal gangs have been setting up cannabis-growing cottage industries in Irish suburbs, renting expensive houses and installing sophisticated irrigation and heat lamps to net crops worth up to €280,000 in eight weeks. CONOR LALLY , Crime Correspondent, reports on the lucrative drug cultivation under our noses.
IT’S MID-AFTERNOON when the illegal Vietnamese immigrant hears the noise he has been dreading. Someone is banging on the hall door, trying to rouse the occupants of the house. The caller’s efforts continue for a few minutes. It’s the landlord. With no sign of life in the rented house he decides to let himself in. Hearing the key in the lock, the Vietnamese man decides to bolt. He flees through a back window and down the streets of this middle-class south Dublin suburb.
As the landlord pushes open the hall door he sees that things are not quite as they should be. He sees wires running from the ESB meter through the hallway. As he follows the cables upstairs he notices a makeshift wooden panel nailed to the landing wall. It is covered in sockets from which dozens of wires run into the bedrooms.
Source: Conor Lally, The Irish Times, 30/10/2010
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