A former roofer has been given a three-year suspended sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for possessing heroin valued €6,000 in March of last year.

An Englishman, described as a "very big-time player", who was part of a €1.5m heroin deal between two criminal gangs on both sides of the Irish Sea has been jailed for 12 years by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.