Father of seven gets 10 years for cannabis possession

A father of seven who smoked cannabis to relieve chronic neck pain has been jailed for ten years for transporting €19,000 worth of the drug because he was €100 ‘in debt’ to criminals.

Gabriel Redmond (aged 44), of Brookview Walk, Tallaght, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court at to possession of the drugs for sale or supply on Old Bawn Road on April 6, 2005.