Heroin dealer jailed for seven years

A PROFESSIONAL heroin dealer who was caught in Cork with one of the biggest quantities of the drug ever seized in the city was jailed for seven years yesterday.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin said if Declan Harris, 50, had been convicted of this very serious charge by a jury he would have been sentenced for a period going into double figures.

“You were in this business for profit. I do not take the view, on the basis of all the evidence, that you were doing this to feed a habit.