Dealer gets three years over repeat heroin offence

A heroin dealer who was caught with a quantity of the drug in Cork travelled to Dublin for another stash in the vain hope of selling it to clear his debt from the first drugs bust. 

Judge Gerard O’Brien imposed a sentence of five years with the last two years suspended on Owen Murphy at Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.

Detective Sergeant Jason Lynch said Murphy, who was from Carrigaline but living at an apartment at 69, Summerhill North, Cork, was stopped by drugs squad gardaí at Patrick’s Quay, Cork, on March 23, 2016.