Corkman who swallowed drugs in front of gardaí gets 14 months in prison

The defendant's solicitor said the man got into all of these difficulties following his release from prison due to the absence of step-down facilities

The judge imposed a total jail term of 14 months on Dineen, made up by a series of consecutive sentences and disqualified him from driving for 14 years.

A young man with a list of criminal convictions swallowed drugs in front of gardaí as they tried to search him and he also lashed out at them during this obstruction.

Now he has been jailed for a total of 14 months for this offence and a series of other crimes. Sergeant Pat Lyons gave details of several crimes covering a period of over three years, to which Shane Dineen, 28, pleaded guilty at Cork District Court.