Dealer’s girlfriend must leave €410k home

A drug dealer’s girlfriend will have to leave a luxurious house he built for them from the proceeds of his criminal activities, the High Court has ruled.

Avril Boland, aged 29, lived since 2008 in the house at the scenic spot in Dromahair, Co Leitrim, with Patrick Irwin, aged 30, until he was jailed last year for seven years for having €67,000 worth of cocaine at Boyle in Roscommon in Oct 2006.

Unless she appeals yesterday’s High Court order appointing a receiver over the house by Aug 15, she must leave by that date, the court heard.