Woman avoids jail after bringing drugs into prison

A YOUNG woman who brought over €400 of drugs into Cork Prison when she attended to visit a prisoner was ordered to do 150 hours of community service to avoid going to jail herself.

Amy Goggin, in her 20s, of 55 Glendower Court, Ballincollig, Co Cork, had the case against her listed for trial at Cork District Court yesterday.

However, she pleaded guilty to the charges of being in possession of Diamorphine, better known as heroin, for her own use and a separate charge of conveying the drug to the prison at Rathmore Road or to a person in the prison.