CITY PAINTER GETS SUSPENDED DRUGS SENTENCE

Date Published: 20-Jun-2007

A Galway painter-and-decorator who had cocaine worth 15,956 euro when stopped by a garda has been given a three year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.25 year old Shane Kelly of Sherwood Avenue, Taylors Hill pleaded guilty to possession of the drugs at Tree Park Close, Tallaght on September 18, 2005.Judge Frank O Donnell handed Shane Kelly a 3 year sentence which he suspended for 5 years.