Corkman caught stepping off bus from Dublin with heroin worth €16k avoids jail

'You were in a bad place. You are in a much better place now. Take the chance and keep going,' judge said to the accused as he gave him a four-year suspended sentence

Accused was a chronic heroin user and he was being paid in heroin for the trips he was making to Dublin to bring the drug back to Cork, court heard

A Corkman who was caught stepping off a Dublin bus in Cork City with €16,800 worth of heroin in 2018 has since managed to turn his life around completely — to the extent he has been given a fully suspended jail sentence.

Judge Dara Hayes addressed the accused man, Greg Duggan, of Fairfield Avenue, Farranree, Cork, directly at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.