Meath man to be sentenced over €7m drugs haul

A Meath aviation broker known as “The Boxer” will be sentenced later for conspiring to import €7m of heroin and cocaine from Belgium.

John Kinsella (aged 38) a former Irish super heavyweight boxing champion, of Carne Wood, Johnstown, Navan pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court a day before his trial to conspiring with others to import the drugs between September 22 and 26, 2006.