A man who brought almost €70,000 worth of cocaine from Brazil into Dublin Airport has been jailed for three years. Noel O’Connor (36) flew back to Brazil shortly after the drugs were detected through a random search. O’Connor, of Cromlech Fields, Ballybrack, Co Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to the importation of controlled drugs on February 10th last. Garda Rachel Goggin told Diarmuid Collins BL, prosecuting, that O’Connor had arrived into Dublin Airport from Sao Paolo, Brazil. In Brazil O’Connor met up with this friend and became involved with the friend’s sister, who then became pregnant.

Source: The Irish Times February 01, 2018 19:18 UTC