Taxi driver caught with €1m worth of heroin given 10-year jail term

A taxi driver who was caught with €1m worth of heroin in his car and at the home he shared with his partner has been given the 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for this offence by Judge Frank O'Donnell.

Paul Brien (aged 43) of Saul Road, Crumlin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of the drugs for sale or supply on the Ballybough Road and at Marigold Crescent, Darndale on April 24, 2008. He had one previous conviction for larceny.