Martin McBride's cannabis sentence cut to 14 years on appeal

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Martin McBride's total sentence for two cannabis offences was cut from 17 years to 14 by the Court of Appeal on 25 July 2016.

The offences involved cannabis found in Cork and at McBride's home in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, the judgment records.

The Wexford sentence remained 10 years and consecutive, while the court quashed the seven-year Cork sentence and imposed four years instead.

The court said it had jurisdiction to reduce the Cork term in the interests of totality and proportionality, and allowed the appeal.