Taxi driver jailed for having cocaine in boot of his car

A taxi driver who had an impeccable work record all his life has been jailed for four-and-a-half years after he admitted having over €200,000 worth of cocaine in the boot of his car.

Alan Rowe, aged 58, of Oxmantown Rd, Dublin 8 said he agreed to transport the cocaine to pay off a drugs debt.

He developed a cocaine habit in his forties after his marriage collapsed.