Cork teenager given jail sentence over multiple drug offences

On March 25 this year, at 5.55pm, Macroom gardaí found the man in possession of cannabis worth €140, and a search of his phone showed evidence of messages relating to sale and supply of the drug. He admitted to selling cannabis to pay for a drug debt. File picture

A teenager who carried out a string of drugs offences, ultimately leading to selling drugs to cover a drug debt, has been handed an eight-month jail sentence.

The young person has just turned 18 but all-bar-one of the offences to which he pleaded guilty before Macroom District Court took place when he was a minor.