Galway man gets six years for smuggling drugs

A Galway man who claimed he unknowingly smuggled drugs into the country after agreeing to carry home a bag of clothes for a girl he met has received a six-year sentence with one suspended.

Galway man gets six years for smuggling drugs

A Galway man who claimed he unknowingly smuggled drugs into the country after agreeing to carry home a bag of clothes for a girl he met has received a six-year sentence with one suspended.

James McCarthy (aged 44) of Michael Collins Road, Mervue, Galway pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of €17,000 worth of cannabis in Dublin Airport on March 26, 2008.

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