2021-04-21
Drug-selling taxi driver served 'long four years' in industrial school
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Patrick McCarthy's (56) detention in an industrial school in Tipperary in the 1970s would have been "a very tough four years" and similar to serving a prison sentence. "I suspect his stay there was not easy. He said given the fact that the man had led a blameless life prior to his arrest for selling cocaine, his co-operation with the garda investigation and his admissions, he didn't deserve a custodial sentence before he suspended a three-year sentence in full.