Cork woman found with heroin by sniffer dog jailed

Rachel Ward, 36, admitted taking a number of trips to Dublin to buy heroin and to selling it to customers

Gardaí used a specially trained sniffer dog to detect drugs in the possession of a 36-year-old woman stepping off the Dublin train at Kent railway station in Cork. File picture

Gardaí used a specially trained sniffer dog to detect drugs in the possession of a 36-year-old woman stepping off the Dublin train at Kent railway station in Cork.

Detective Garda Paul Leahy said Rachel Ward, who lives in an apartment on Great William O’Brien Street, Cork, told gardaí from the divisional drugs unit there were traces of heroin on tinfoil in her handbag on February 15.