Members of the Garda National Drugs Unit found text messages and a "ticklist for drug dealing" they believe link a Fingal man accused of conspiracy to possess cocaine to the drugs trade.

An alcoholic father of one who ran up drug debts to feed his cocaine habit has been given a ten year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for possession of an estimated €200,000 of heroin.

A taxi driver who stashed cannabis worth €2.75m in a ditch behind his home has been jailed for six years by Judge Kevin Haugh at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.