‘Stupid’ drug dealer gets 5 years

A judge gave nought out of 10 to a drug dealer for his extraordinarily stupid antics with a bag of drugs worth €9,000.

The accused had never come to the attention of gardaí before this bizarre incident at Blarney Woollen Mills, Cork. Yesterday, this and another drugs crime resulted in him getting five years in jail.

It all started when Shane O’Mahony of 15 The Sycamores, Classis Lake, Ovens, Co Cork, drove his grey Volkswagen Golf into the car park at Blarney Woollen Mills. Garda Denis O’Sullivan saw the car parked there later that afternoon and noticed it had no tax and insurance — he decided to have the car seized.