10 years for 'holding' cannabis to pay for christening
A man who agreed to hold €38,000 worth of cannabis resin because he wanted money for his godchild’s christening has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by Judge Katherine Delahunt.
Robert McCarthy (aged 23), of Ferrycarrig Green, Coolock, was unemployed at the time and admitted to gardaí that he took the drugs because he was offered €500 to hold them. He needed the money for a christening after his cousin asked him to be godfather for his child.
