Man started taking heroin 'to lose weight for football'

A Dublin drug addict who started taking heroin to lose weight for football has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for possession of the drug.

Darren Mason (aged 34) of Hardwick Street Flats in the north inner city pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of €46,186 worth of heroin at a house on Greencastle Avenue in Coolock on June 21, 2009.