A South African national who was caught with almost €80,000 worth of cannabis in her suitcase at Dublin Airport has been sentenced to seven years in prison by Judge Desmond Hogan.

A Belfast man from a "very respectable family", who told gardaí he was making €500 a week distributing cocaine after being made redundant, has been given nine years in consecutive sentences.

A GARDA yesterday denied he was covering up for two colleagues who were in a pub on the night of farmer Richie Barron’s death in Donegal seven years ago.