A professional Limerick courier who acted as a ‘storeman’ for a drugs gang in order to pay off gambling debts was yesterday jailed for five years at Limerick Circuit Court.

A professional Limerick courier rented an apartment in an affluent part of the city to run a huge drugs operation for a gang in order to pay off gambling debts, a court heard.

WHEN Limerick gardaí raided the site of a new house they discovered the area strewn with boxes and bags of cannabis worth €1.3 million.