Cocaine worth €130k thrown from car with gardaí in pursuit

Court told accused was in grips of addiction with substantial drugs debt

The case against Andrew Maher was that he was operating as a courier for large amounts of cocaine for this organised crime gang.

A Cork man driving back from Dublin with a €130,000 stash of cocaine in his car threw it out the window onto the central median of the motorway as two unmarked Garda cars with blue lights and sirens pursued him.

At Cork Circuit Criminal Court on Wednesday, Andrew Maher with an address at St Declan’s Road, Gurranabraher, Cork, was given a sentence of three and a half years with the last year suspended.