A civil engineering student who hid drugs valued €136,000 at Kilbarrack DART station has been sentenced to five years by Judge Desmond Hogan at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Caoimhín Mac Amhlaoibh (19), Grange Park View, Raheny, pleaded guilty to possession of cannabis resin and ecstasy worth a total of €136,000 on October 13th, 2002.
The court heard Mac Amhlaoibh rang gardaí on October 13th, 2002, a day after gardaí searched his family home, and said he would show them where the drugs were.
Gardaí had searched the family home while investigating a similar drugs offence in which his brother was implicated.
That search had revealed a small amount of cannabis for which Mac Amhlaoibh's brother took responsibility.
Garda Sgt Brendan Byrne said Mac Amhlaoibh led gardaí to Kilbarrack DART station where he showed them a place by the tracks marked by two pieces of timber. A sports bag which contained 8.5 kg of cannabis resin and 3000 ecstasy tablets was hidden there.
Judge Desmond Hogan suspended the last three years of the sentence because Mac Amhlaoibh had no previous convictions and had co-operated with gardaí from the outset.
He had also just passed the first year of his civil engineering degree course at Dundalk DIT and the judge had a positive Probation and Welfare Services report in front of him.
He had no previous convictions and came from a respectable family.