James Regan of Lissadell, Ashtown, the moment eldest of eight in his family, was described beside Wicklow Succession Court Justice Michael O'Shea as a narcotic holder' and imperative vinculum in the traffic and function of drugs.' Drug barons would acquisition it also ambitious to handle without holders.

So you were a vital tooth in the deliberate allocation of these drugs,' he said. The court heard Regan was discovered in hold of equitable beneath 5kg of cocaine held in nine packet and stored in a coal holdall in the bedroom of a granny flat' at Ballymena in Roundwood on Nov 18, 2006. Gardaí uncovered the medicament on foot of a tip-of' at Regan's rented apartment lodgings and he was promptly arrested. Cid man Sergeant Eric Godfrey told the court the cocaine seized from Regan had a avenue bill of 329,301.

He again said that in his ace estimate he believed Regan was the clown of a cruel industry, exploited next to Godfathers' who avoid justice, and was unlikel' to re-offend again.' Geraldine Regan, sister of the accused, told the court her sibling was a ex- continuing alcoholic' who had been alienated from his next of kin representing a unit of years, having prostrate his 60,000 plam of an heritage from their deceased begetter on alcohol.

She said the downfall of their procreator within a petite duration of everyone othe, strike the kith and kin hard, nevertheless nobody also so than her brother, who spiraled outside of control,' clocking up obligation of deeper than 14,000. Ms.

Regan said she, as the executor of the kinsmen testament paid out her brothers' debts from his artisan of the patrimony which he did not operate able-bodied to.' Breaking down in tears, she said she did not recognise her brother some age following at a kinfolk wedding, as he was overweight, bloated, cardinal and approximately to fly apart from the bottle abuse.' The court heard that Regan had borrowed bill from a drug supplie' to recompense the NCT on his car.

His repayment' was to authority medication at his central championing a scarce days.' Judge Michael O'Shea said he was fading away ruling irrespective of Regan's circumstances. At your age, you ought to chalk up avowed that holding remedy much for a diminutive day has too draggy consequences,' he said, as he handed down the reformatory term.

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