2025-10-08
Judge jails drugs transporter who has 'successfully rehabilitated'
Stage: Sentence
Outcome: Martin Nolan jailed the defendant after noting that his problems were "of his own creation". (Photo: Collins) By Sonya McLean A man who was caught transporting just under €500,000 worth of cannabis has been jailed for three years and three months. Judge Nolan set a headline sentence of six years before he imposed a term of three years and three months.; He is now drug free. "He made choices and he made bad choices and he understands that," Mr McGinn said. "He recognises he did wrong and has since changed his life completely, moving himself physically out of the area to become a more constructive member of society." He suggested that it would be a "retrograde step" to imprison Delaney. "A lot of good things would be undone where he to be remanded