Drug dealer handed 10-year jail term

A convicted drug dealer has been given a 10-year sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell after gardaí spotted him digging up heroin worth €178,000 three months after he was released from a previous drug sentence.

Brendan Reilly (aged 44) of Langrishe Place, Dublin 1, pleaded guilty before a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury of being in possession of the drugs for sale or supply on the Clontarf Road on June 16, 2007.