Joseph Walsh jailed for firearms offences in Cork

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Joseph Walsh was jailed for five years and six months for firearms offences at the Special Criminal Court on 5 February 2018. Michael Gilmartin was sentenced to five years at the same court for related firearms offences.

The men had pleaded guilty to possessing firearms and ammunition at Chestnut Drive, Cluain Ard, Newtown, Cobh, County Cork, on 14 September 2016.

The sentences included concurrent terms for ammunition offences and were backdated to 14 December 2016. Mr Justice Tony Hunt cited their early guilty pleas as mitigating factors.