Man sentenced to seven-and-a-half years for possession €200k of heroin

A man who came off drugs twice and helped many others combat their addictions has been given a seven-and-half-years sentence for having heroin worth almost €200,000.

Alan McNally managed an aftercare programme for addicts for some years after rehabilitating himself in 2001 but relapsed into drug addiction again in 2006 because of a lack of financial and other supports for his voluntary work and carried the heroin because of a “debt” he ran up with a drugs criminal he feared.