Man gets 11 years for drugs and firearms possession

The son of "a particularly vicious man" has been given 11 years in consecutive sentences for possession of cocaine and cannabis and then having control of a gun a year later while on bail.

Joseph Duff (aged 21) pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to having cocaine and cannabis valued almost €100,000 for sale or supply on May 3, 2005 and to unlawful possession of a double-barrelled shotgun and ammunition on May 6, 2006.