Polish man gets eight years for cannabis possession

A Polish man who claimed he found over €54,000 worth of cannabis herb under a tree outside his home has received an eight-year sentence.

Tomasz Przyjemski, aged 25, with an address at Shantalla Road in Beaumont in Dublin told gardaí he was not holding the drugs for anyone, that he was not going to sell them and that he did not have a drug problem.