Eight years for postman who hid €1m worth of cannabis

A postman who stored over €1m worth of cannabis in bushes near his home to repay a debt has been given an eight year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Matthew McConville (aged 24) was chased by gardai into his former girlfriend’s house where they discovered a stash of cocaine stored by her and her tenant Paul Ryan (aged 30) who was given a three year sentence