Cork court hears Lithuanian drug gang had 'foot soldiers' in towns all over Ireland

The court heard the 26-year-old had drugs convictions from Galway, Waterford, Tralee, Northern Ireland and now Cork.

The young man was using heroin himself and he was involved in the offences to feed his own habit. File image

A Lithuanian drug-dealing gang were sending “foot soldiers” to urban centres all over Ireland – north and south – to sell heroin on the streets and today one of their street dealers was jailed for 18 months.

Detective Sergeant Robert Brosnan said the 26-year-old Lithuanian man being sentenced at Cork Circuit Criminal Court had been in Ireland for four years and had drugs convictions from Galway, Waterford, Tralee, Northern Ireland and now Cork.