Corkman gets one year for having stash of cocaine at his home

The court heard the defendant said he stepped in to store the drugs when another party was under threat and in fear of unnamed drug-dealers in respect of a debt

The street value of the drugs found following a search under warrant amounted to €10,000.

A one-year sentence was imposed on a 42-year-old man who admitted having a stash of cocaine at his home in Blackpool. 

Judge Catherine Staines imposed a sentence of three years but suspended the last two years of the sentence at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.