I presume, at 80 years of age, he was doing this out of desperation or necessity,
What is the value to society of jailing an 80 year old with dementia for a nonviolent crime that he is explicitly acknowledged to have been extorted into committing.
Similar to Clint Eastwood film
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Glad this scum is off the street. Pure kingpin behavior.
Oh don’t mind those scrotes throwing stuff at people on the Luas and threatening people, forget them, sure they are angles
That’s EP ruined anyway
>nevertheless he had pleaded guilty to a serious offence which has *consequences on society*
Consequences of MDMA include high energy, euphoria, interest in repetitive dance music and love to all.
It’s never too late to join the prison population. Maybe the judge was thinking oh I previously let four twenty year old dealers out of prison with a suspended sentence, now I will put everything right and send this 80 year old and this will totally make up for it. .
It’s sick to give this man that sentence.
Bring back the old fashioned Garda. The ones who dealt with the cause and top of the chain.
This stinks to me as the dealers had to give up one large-ish haul and hang someone out to dry. Or else pressure would be put on the Garda to actually deal with first principles. It’s not the mules we need dealt with, it’s the importers and the wholesale sellers.
I’m sure the fact he had priors and was given a lenient sentence back then factored into the judges decision this time round.
Since when do you need a drug mule to move drugs INSIDE a country?
I can think of 50 different ways to get a half a million euros worth of drugs from Donegal to Dublin that doesn’t involve an sending an 80 year old man on a bus.
Seems unnecessarily reckless.
why we are still criminalizing drugs in this country i will never know. ridiculous sentencing
“Important cog in the wheel” oh brother give it a rest
One day people will look back on drug prohibition in our era the same way we look back on contraception prohibition in the mid-20th century.
A person with dementia is particularly vulnerable to extortion and manipulation, how culpable can he be really?
I still cannot for the life of me understand why cocaine is so much more popular than MDMA, particularly in a country like Ireland. Apart from the fact that anecdotally having done the former twice and the latter once, MDMA as a trip is superior in literally every conceivable way, it’s also something that could be synthesised locally from plants that grow in our climate, as opposed to relying on high-risk importation from dangerous people in countries with genuinely terrifying drug wars ongoing.
I’ve never been able to wrap my head around it tbh. Both crystal meth and MDMA can be made in someone’s kitchen if they know what they’re doing, cocaine *has* to be imported from a handful of countries where coca leaf grows abundantly. How did the latter, with all the risks and headaches of international trafficking, gain a bigger foothold in the recreational drug market than drugs of comparable or superior euphoric effect which could easily be made in Ireland in large quantities by someone with a bit of chemistry knowledge?
The amount of gullible gobshites who believe things said about a guilty person at a sentence hearing never ceases to amaze me. The first thing worth pointing out is there is a 10 year mandatory minimum sentence for anything above 13k of drugs.
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At 80 years old surely this man was a drug mule?
I presume, at 80 years of age, he was doing this out of desperation or necessity,
What is the value to society of jailing an 80 year old with dementia for a nonviolent crime that he is explicitly acknowledged to have been extorted into committing.
Similar to Clint Eastwood film
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Glad this scum is off the street. Pure kingpin behavior.
Oh don’t mind those scrotes throwing stuff at people on the Luas and threatening people, forget them, sure they are angles
That’s EP ruined anyway
>nevertheless he had pleaded guilty to a serious offence which has *consequences on society*
Consequences of MDMA include high energy, euphoria, interest in repetitive dance music and love to all.
https://preview.redd.it/5myp0sb5ww5d1.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=640648006823da8afef93a2c2ff9b2f0ab475473
It’s never too late to join the prison population. Maybe the judge was thinking oh I previously let four twenty year old dealers out of prison with a suspended sentence, now I will put everything right and send this 80 year old and this will totally make up for it. .
It’s sick to give this man that sentence.
Bring back the old fashioned Garda. The ones who dealt with the cause and top of the chain.
This stinks to me as the dealers had to give up one large-ish haul and hang someone out to dry. Or else pressure would be put on the Garda to actually deal with first principles. It’s not the mules we need dealt with, it’s the importers and the wholesale sellers.
I’m sure the fact he had priors and was given a lenient sentence back then factored into the judges decision this time round.
Since when do you need a drug mule to move drugs INSIDE a country?
I can think of 50 different ways to get a half a million euros worth of drugs from Donegal to Dublin that doesn’t involve an sending an 80 year old man on a bus.
Seems unnecessarily reckless.
why we are still criminalizing drugs in this country i will never know. ridiculous sentencing
“Important cog in the wheel” oh brother give it a rest
One day people will look back on drug prohibition in our era the same way we look back on contraception prohibition in the mid-20th century.
A person with dementia is particularly vulnerable to extortion and manipulation, how culpable can he be really?
I still cannot for the life of me understand why cocaine is so much more popular than MDMA, particularly in a country like Ireland. Apart from the fact that anecdotally having done the former twice and the latter once, MDMA as a trip is superior in literally every conceivable way, it’s also something that could be synthesised locally from plants that grow in our climate, as opposed to relying on high-risk importation from dangerous people in countries with genuinely terrifying drug wars ongoing.
I’ve never been able to wrap my head around it tbh. Both crystal meth and MDMA can be made in someone’s kitchen if they know what they’re doing, cocaine *has* to be imported from a handful of countries where coca leaf grows abundantly. How did the latter, with all the risks and headaches of international trafficking, gain a bigger foothold in the recreational drug market than drugs of comparable or superior euphoric effect which could easily be made in Ireland in large quantities by someone with a bit of chemistry knowledge?
The amount of gullible gobshites who believe things said about a guilty person at a sentence hearing never ceases to amaze me. The first thing worth pointing out is there is a 10 year mandatory minimum sentence for anything above 13k of drugs.
Secondly, this isn’t his first offence. He’s clearly long been part of a drugs operation and has been caught before (as has his partner) : https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/pensioner-in-tears-over-drug-trafficking-charges-1090878
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/brother-of-orange-order-leader-accused-of-links-to-200k-cannabis-farm/29398082.html
https://www.donegallive.ie/news/donegal-news/42893/Suspended-sentence-for-cannabis-man-.html
https://highlandradio.com/2013/02/01/two-men-back-in-court-on-drugs-charges/ He’s a drug dealer involved in the movement of drugs across borders.
He looks like the Chinese guy from RIPD 
What was it in weight.