Man jailed over drugs haul at Dunlough Bay fails in jail term appeal

THE Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed a British man’s appeal against the severity of a 25-year sentence for possession of cocaine in the state’s largest case of drug smuggling.

Joseph Daly, aged 44, of Bexley, Kent, was jailed for 25 years by Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin in July 2008, having being found guilty of possession for sale or supply of cocaine valued at €440 million by a Cork Circuit Criminal Court jury.

The drugs were recovered from the sea off Dunlough Bay outside Goleen, Co Cork, on July 2, 2007.