A woman who tried to smuggle heroin worth more than €800 into Mountjoy Prison to give to a former boyfriend has been sentenced to one year in jail at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
A sniffer dog alerted staff to Nicola Devine. She denied she had drugs but then handed over heroin valued at €820. Devine (28), of Harelawn Avenue, Clondalkin, Dublin, pleaded guilty to conveying a controlled drug into Mountjoy Prison on July 13th, 2009.