Dealer caught with €95k of heroin gets six years

A heroin dealer who was a trusted player in the drug underworld was jailed for six years yesterday after being caught with €95,000 worth of heroin at his home in Cork.

The man had clocked up a €6,000 drugs debt and claimed to have stashed the heroin and cannabis which brought the total close to over €100,000 worth of drugs in an effort to clear what he owed.

Judge Donagh McDonagh imposed an eight-year sentence and suspended the last two years at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.