12 rugby fans have cocaine convictions overturned

A total of 12 people labelled by a judge as supporters of the “murderous” drug trade have had their convictions for unlawful possession during last year’s Kinsale 7s rugby event overturned on appeal.

They were part of a group of what Judge James McNulty described as a “parade of graduates and aspiring professionals” who were arrested and charged after being caught with cocaine at the annual rugby event.