Cork man gets 15 years for possessing drugs

One of the most prominent figures in the drugs trade in Cork city was caught red-handed with €500,000 worth of cannabis and today he was given a 15-year jail sentence.

Dean Coughlan, 28, of 24 Ballinderry Park, Mayfield, cried as Judge Moran imposed a ten-year sentence followed by a five-year consecutive sentence at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.