Former Dublin minor hurler gets eight years

A former Dublin minor hurler who left his social security card in a holdall bag containing €44,000 worth of cannabis resin has been sentenced to eight years in prison by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

Patrick Casey (aged 19) of Casino Park, Marino, who had no previous convictions, dumped the bag on a railway line in Killester because he didn’t want the drugs near his family home.