Addict gets 12-year sentence for €820k cannabis haul

A drug addict and alcoholic who was caught with almost €820,000 of cannabis resin has been given a 12-year sentence with the final three years suspended by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Father-of-two Alan Farrell (aged 22), of Neilson Street, Dublin 1 and Berkely Street, Phibsboro, pleaded guilty to possession of the 117 kilogrammes of drugs, worth €818,898 in the car park of a public house on April 18, 2009.