Raymond Fortune jailed for €1.4m drug offences

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Raymond Fortune was jailed for seven years for possessing drugs for sale or supply at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court; the report was published on 2 April 2025. The offences involved drugs found in his van and a storage unit at Rosemount Business Park.

Fortune pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of drugs for sale or supply on 4 July 2024. The court heard that gardaí found 7kg of cannabis in his van and, in a storage unit, 64kg of cannabis and 623g of ketamine.

Judge Martin Nolan said Fortune’s involvement was serious, while noting that he did not own the drugs and had faced addiction and a drugs debt. The judge imposed a seven-year sentence, backdated to 4 July 2024, when Fortune entered custody.