A convicted drug dealer has been given a 10-year sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell after gardaí spotted him digging up heroin worth €178,000 three months after he was released from a previous drug sentence.

THE wounded associate of a notorious heroin dealer, gunned down in a gangland attack this week, has died.

A FATHER of six charged in connection with a large haul of heroin was refused bail yesterday.

A 42-year-old Dublin man appeared at The Bridewell District Court today, charged with having in his possession €220,000 worth of heroin on Saturday evening.