Man sentenced to 12 years for cocaine possession

A Tallaght man found in possession of cocaine with a potential value of €1.9m in a flat which gardaí described as a "processing plant" has been sentenced to 12 years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today.

Judge Joseph Matthews suspended three years of Keith Mahon’s sentence and heard the 15 kilos of cocaine was worth €1m, but had a value of nearly double that if combined with a mixing agent also found at the flat.