A man who failed to show up for his trial last year for possession of cannabis valued €7m has pleaded guilty to the charges just before a jury was due to sworn in for a new trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Outstanding garda surveillance work led to a man being caught with €7m worth of cannabis resin that were stacked in crates in the back of a van outside Dublin’s Phoenix Park.

An unemployed north city man who smuggled cocaine valued at over €1.65m into Ireland has been jailed for 10 years by Judge Donagh McDonagh at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Sentence on an unemployed Dublin man who smuggled cocaine valued at more than €1.65m into Ireland has been adjourned to next April at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.