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TWO men who pleaded guilty to drug-dealing have been told they will not go to prison if they have clear drug-tests for the next two years.
James McCauley (23) from Kil- nasoolagh Park in Newmarket-on- Fergus and Glen Cullinane, Lodge Road, Sixmilebridge both pleaded guilty before the Circuit Court in Ennis to possession of cocaine and ecstasy for sale or supply.
Detective Garda Stephan Ryan told
the court that he searched the boot of a car on March 16 last and found 55.635 grammes of cocaine and 37 ecstasy tablets in a plastic box.
He told Judge Ray Fullam that the cocaine was contained in 32 self- sealed bags of two grammes each which sell for €100.
He told the judge that when they were arrested on the night in ques- tion, both men “co-operated fully” with the gardai.
“They both made a full admission. Both of them had a very serious co-
caine addiction and they got into se- rious debt. The were selling to fund their addictions and to pay their debts but the problem was so serious that a large portion of the drugs which I found were for their personal use,’ the garda told the court.
The court heard that both men were consuming large quantities of co- caine “on a daily basis”.
Counsel for Cullinane said her cli- ent was spending between €500 and €600 a week on cocaine.
Garda Ryan said that he advised
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‘*T believe these two men have posi- tively changed and it is unlikely they will be before the courts again,” the garda continued.
Judge Fullam heard that both men have been in counselling and are now giving regular urine samples which
prove they are drug free.
Noting that Garda Ryan had gone much further to advise and help the two men than was necessary in his job and the fact that he spoke posi- tively about the steps both had taken to tackle their problems, the judge said he would put the case back for two years.
The judge said that he would need a progress and probation report.
“If there is complete rehabilitation in that time, I will be applying the probation act,” he said.