Man jailed for eight years over €37k stash of cocaine in Cork

A man caught with over €37,000 worth of heroin on St Patrick’s Day in a car near a motorway toll booth in Cork had a lifestyle that included trips to Las Vegas, despite social welfare being his only declared income.

Gardaí seized the €37,000 worth of drugs on the M8 Cork-Dublin motorway on March 17, 2015, Detective Sergeant Lar O’Brien said yesterday.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin imposed a 10-year jail term, with the last two years suspended, on Wayne McCullagh, aged 33, from Beechmount Avenue in Navan, Co Meath yesterday at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.