2013-12-02 · Dublin
Drug-smuggling prison officer has sentence reduced on appeal
Jarlath Walsh, a 42‑year‑old former prison officer, was originally sentenced to five years' imprisonment for smuggling cocaine, cannabis, cannabis resin and thousands of tablets, including flurazepam, diazepam and oxymetholone, into Mountjoy prison. He pleaded guilty at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. On appeal, Judge Donal O'Donnell found the…