Three milkmen who used mobile phones to take orders and delivered heroin on their rounds for a major Dublin drug gang have been given five-year suspended sentences. A carpenter who prepared the drugs was also given the same sentence.
Garda Christopher Elliott said the milkmen were recruited by the gang after their businesses fell into financial difficulties.
Judge Elizabeth Dunne at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court described them as "a very unusual group" to come before the courts on a drug supply charge.
Peter Joyce (27), of Abbotstown Drive, Finglas; William Kenny (50), of Collins Avenue, Whitehall; Brian Kenny (30), of Mitchelstown Cottage, Kilshane Cross, Finglas; and Peter Kiernan (42), of The Court, High Park, Drumcondra, pleaded guilty to possession of heroin with intent to supply at High Park, Drumcondra, on February 12th, 1998.