Major drug dealer jailed for 12 years

A MAJOR dealer, active in a multi-million euro drugs enterprise in Cork city for more than 20 years, has been jailed for 12 years, with the last five years of the sentence suspended.

John Heaphy was caught with a large coffee jar full of ecstasy tablets in his hands after a three-day stakeout in an unkempt field in Rathpeacon, Co Cork.

Heaphy, aged 56, from 59 Kerryhall Road, Fairhill, Cork, was sentenced yesterday at Cork Circuit Criminal Court for having €47,000 worth of illegal drugs.