Taxi driver jailed for transporting cocaine valued at over €250,000

A taxi driver who carried cocaine valued at over €250,000 in his cab for "a few hundred euro" to help pay off his loans has been jailed for nine years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Edmund Breslin (aged 42), a father of two, agreed to carry the drugs after running into financial difficulties and not disclosing the extent of his problems to his family.