Drug dealer sentenced for earlier drugs offense
A “well known drug dealer” who was jailed for 20 years last year for possessing €1m worth of heroin has been sentenced for an earlier drugs offence.
Anthony O’Leary (aged 35) was standing in his underwear when gardaí came to raid his home for drugs on foot of confidential information.
Garda Andrew Lyons told Mr Damien Colgan BL, prosecuting, that several bags of heroin fell out of O’Leary’s boxer shorts when he asked him to shake them out.
O’Leary, of Wheatfield Court, Clondalkin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possessing a total €5,961 of heroin on his person and at his former Westbourne Green home in Clondalkin on May 24, 2008.
He got two 10-year sentences to run consecutively for possessing heroin worth €991,076 at the Westbourne Green premises on August 5, 2008 and €200,000 of the drug at his current address while on bail four months later.
Judge Katherine Delahunt allowed him to come back to court after 15 years to review the rest of the term.
Mr Paul Antony McDermott BL, defending, asked Judge Delahunt not to add to the sentence his client is currently serving.
The judge acceded to his request and sentenced O’Leary to four years in prison to run concurrently to his 20-year term.
