Man tried to sell drugs to an off-duty garda

A man with a stash of cocaine tried to sell drugs to an off-duty garda in Cork city centre and yesterday he faced the possibility of a jail term for drug dealing.

Detective Sergeant Jason Wallace testified at Cork District Court yesterday that he was working in Cork city centre in the early hours of that morning when he got a call from the off-duty colleague who had detained the suspect, Mark O’Leary. Judge Con O’Leary noted from previous drug-related convictions that O’Leary had never been given a jail sentence. Judge O’Leary asked: “Why would he stop when he walked away so many times?”