Cork farmer successfully appeals 10-month sentence for dealing drugs 

Barry Coleman, son of former mayor of County Cork Alan Coleman, used farm as collection point for customers to pick up cocaine

One person offered to milk the farmer’s cows in exchange for drugs. File picture: Maura Hickey

A Cork farmer moonlighting as a drug supplier, using the farm on occasions as a collection point for customers to pick up cocaine, has had his jail sentence suspended on appeal.

Barry Coleman, son of Independent county councillor and former mayor of County Cork Alan Coleman, had been sentenced at Bandon District Court to 10 months, but it has now been suspended by the district's appeals court.