Residents of a small village in Cork where Viagra is manufactured have complained that fumes from a nearby factory have been giving them a hard time.

Irish men in need of the drug will soon be able to purchase the little blue pill over the counter, following a public consultation by the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.

But locals from Ringaskiddy, where Viagra has been manufactured for 20 years, say they won't need to pop down the pharmacy any time soon as ‘love fumes’ from the plant have been gifting local men with inhuman sexual prowess.

Barmaid Debbie O’Grady told The Sunday Times: "One whiff and you’re stiff. We’ve been getting the love fumes for years now for free", referring to smoke emanating from one of the factory’s chimneys.

And it's not just the men that have been giving a boost, with psychiatric nurse Fiona Toomey revealing that even the dogs "walk around in a state of sexual excitement".


She said: "I think that Viagra must have got into the water supply. I’m convinced that’s what happened at the very beginning before they were so closely regulated."

It was even said that Ringaskiddy, which is nicknamed Viagra Falls, underwent a baby boom in the late 1980s after the production of Viagra commenced.

But Pfizer have dismissed talk that the fumes are giving the locals a hard time, saying in a statement that it is nothing more than an amusing myth.

Pfizer said: "Our manufacturing processes have always been highly sophisticated as well as highly regulated."