Addict continued to deal drugs from home after garda raid

A chronic addict who continued to deal drugs from his home even as it was raided by gardaí six times in just more than a year has been given a 15-year sentence.

John Brannigan (aged 47) was spending between €400 and €600 a day on heroin, cocaine and crack and was drug dealing to fund his own habit.

Brannigan, with an address at Ash Grove Avenue, The Coombe, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of drugs for sale or supply at his former home at Rosary Road, Maryland on six dates between May 2007 and August 2008. He has 12 previous convictions.

The drugs seized included heroin, cocaine as well as crack cocaine Brannigan himself had made.

The values of the drugs recovered ranged between €3,000 on one search and to over €20,613 on another.

Judge Katherine Delahunt told him: “I have to look at the hardship you have inflicted on all the people you sold these drugs to and I have to bear in mind the nature of the drugs.”

She imposed consecutive sentences totalling 15 years and suspended the final four year on conditions.