Niall Cully jailed for 10 months over prison phone attempt

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Niall Cully was jailed for 10 months for trying to bring mobile phones into a prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 16 March 2016. The attempt took place at Cloverhill Road, where Gardaí found four phones inside an orange plastic football with a hole cut into it. Cully had pleaded guilty to the offence.

The judge described the attempt as foolish and ineffective, noting that prisoners would not have received the phones. Cully said he had come under pressure to get them into the prison.