Drug dealer jailed over €36k cache of cocaine found in ditch near home

Judge says shorter sentence of four years — with two suspended — designed to deter but also to incentivise towards rehabiliation

A €36,000 cache of cocaine was found in a bag stuck in a ditch near a man’s house in Ballincollig and now he has been sentenced to two years in jail.

Detective Garda Patrick O’Sullivan said at Cork Circuit Criminal Court that officers went to the home of Alan O’Dwyer, at 144 Castlepark, Ballincollig, Co Cork, to conduct a drugs search on November 21 last year.