Poor system wrongly gave leave to travel the world

A CONVICTED drug dealer was wrongly given licence to travel the world by Transport officials who were misinformed by gardaí and themselves failed to understand the application of the law.

This was the outcome of a report ordered by Transport Minister Noel Dempsey into the decision to grant an international haulage licence to Louth operator Kieran Boylan.

His licence came despite his 2006 conviction for handling €750,000 worth of cocaine and heroin at Dublin Port and €1.7 million of drugs being found in his yard while he was out on bail in 2005.