Man pleads guilty to €1m cannabis possession

A Clare man who was caught with over €1m worth of cannabis resin in Cork pleaded guilty this afternoon to having drugs for sale or supply.

Niall Guilfoyle of 6 Tullyglass Crescent, Shannon, County Clare, was before Cork Circuit Criminal Court where he admitted being in possession of cannabis where the street value of the drugs was €13,000 the threshold figure covered by mandatory sentencing of ten years up to life imprisonment.