15-year sentence for firearm possession
A "functioning alcoholic and drug user" who boasted in a pub that he had a semiautomatic pistol has been given a 15-years prison sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell who described him as "a danger to society"
Paul McGrath (aged 48) made his gun boast in the Gallop’s Pub in Leopardstown Valley and gardaí found he had the 9 mm weapon along with 10 rounds of ammunition and €30 worth of cocaine and cannabis.
