James Walsh jailed for nine years over firearms cache

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James Walsh was sentenced to nine years in prison, with one year suspended, for possessing a cache of firearms and ammunition found at a Greenogue Business Park unit in Rathcoole. The Special Criminal Court heard that Walsh had pleaded guilty to possessing nine revolvers, four pistols, a sub-machinegun, an assault rifle and ammunition magazines.

The court said the weapons had been stored for organised and serious crime. In sentencing Walsh, the judge noted a reasonable possibility of threat or coercion behind his actions; his early guilty plea was also a mitigating factor.