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Sweetbudz · 01-12-2011, 05:34 PM

A Trinity College Dublin law student has received a suspended five-year prison sentence for operating a sophisticated hydroponics cannabis-growing factory.

Cian Ó Concubhair (25), Liscannor, Co Clare, had spent Christmas in prison awaiting sentence. He had pleaded guilty before Galway Circuit Criminal Court on December 14th to having cannabis with a street value of almost €50,000 for sale or supply at his rental address at Kinvara, Co Galway, on March 14th last year.

Judge Raymond Groarke said yesterday it was “exceptional in the extreme” to impose a suspended sentence on a person who pleaded guilty to a section 15 (A) offence, but Ó Concubhair had not been selling drugs on the open market, but rather had been supplying his friends and members of his own family.

The hearing in December was told that Ó Concubhair, who is studying law at Trinity College, was working as an apprentice stonemason when he began a hydroponics cannabis-growing factory a year before he was caught in March 2009.

He had bought cannabis seeds from a head shop in Dublin and had bought books and DVDs on how to grow cannabis. He told gardaí he was cultivating the plants for himself and his friends so they did not have to rely on criminal elements to get their supply.

Conal McCarthy, defending, said his client was now drug-free, was attending university and had not been selling the drugs to anyone other than his friends.

https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...287328433.html

01-12-2011, 08:03 PM

With the way jobs are in this country he should have received a grant from the IDA or Enterprise Ireland for opening his "factory"

Ironeek · 01-12-2011, 10:06 PM

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How many plants = 50'000 euro worth???????????
Even @ 400euro a plant thats 125 plants....in a rented student apartment?!?

Poor young lad

Ironeek · 01-12-2011, 10:16 PM

Moral of the story dont grow safe medicinal herbs.....support the gangs and hardened criminals instead who sell silica covered crap and push coke and pip laden pills among the irish youth....

WELL FUCKING DONE

01-13-2011, 01:49 AM

It's sickening that the poor young fella spent time in jail over the Christmas to await sentencing.
If he was going to run he would have done so already.
He posed no threat to society.

Yet he was banged up with criminals, real ones not the horticultural types like you and I.

Honestly you would think these genius's would figure out that given the fucked nature of our coffers that it makes not a jot of sense to be locking up growers who have no affiliation with criminal gangs or drug dealing, in the same way that it's a waste of money and common sense to lock up some poor sod who cant pay their tv licence.

Hell9 · 03-18-2011, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Ironeek

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How many plants = 50'000 euro worth???????????
Even @ 400euro a plant thats 125 plants....in a rented student apartment?!?

Poor young lad

Id say closer to 50 plants - at a guess id say theyd be valued at at least 1000E a plant.

The law count unrooted clones as individual plants. He prob a had a load of cuttings too. Poor fukker.

**Hundred Gram Oz** · 03-18-2011, 07:34 PM

Best of luck him.

Madrus Rose · 03-18-2011, 07:39 PM

Maybe after Law school , he'll help effect change in the laws

Now he's a lucky lad... & has first hand experience.

(Time to go back to hitting the books ....5yr suspended is no joke )

johnny c · 09-01-2011, 07:02 PM

guys most would get sent forward to high court where the minumin is 4 years jail
,id be happy for xmas in jail for all that in ireland

01-12-2011, 05:34 PM	#1
Sweetbudz Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 37	Suspended sentence for cannabis-growing student A Trinity College Dublin law student has received a suspended five-year prison sentence for operating a sophisticated hydroponics cannabis-growing factory. Cian Ó Concubhair (25), Liscannor, Co Clare, had spent Christmas in prison awaiting sentence. He had pleaded guilty before Galway Circuit Criminal Court on December 14th to having cannabis with a street value of almost €50,000 for sale or supply at his rental address at Kinvara, Co Galway, on March 14th last year. Judge Raymond Groarke said yesterday it was “exceptional in the extreme” to impose a suspended sentence on a person who pleaded guilty to a section 15 (A) offence, but Ó Concubhair had not been selling drugs on the open market, but rather had been supplying his friends and members of his own family. The hearing in December was told that Ó Concubhair, who is studying law at Trinity College, was working as an apprentice stonemason when he began a hydroponics cannabis-growing factory a year before he was caught in March 2009. He had bought cannabis seeds from a head shop in Dublin and had bought books and DVDs on how to grow cannabis. He told gardaí he was cultivating the plants for himself and his friends so they did not have to rely on criminal elements to get their supply. Conal McCarthy, defending, said his client was now drug-free, was attending university and had not been selling the drugs to anyone other than his friends. https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...287328433.html
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01-12-2011, 10:06 PM	#3
Ironeek Banned Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 214	............. . How many plants = 50'000 euro worth??????????? Even @ 400euro a plant thats 125 plants....in a rented student apartment?!? Poor young lad
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01-13-2011, 01:49 AM	#5
BOSCO Guest Posts: n/a	It's sickening that the poor young fella spent time in jail over the Christmas to await sentencing. If he was going to run he would have done so already. He posed no threat to society. Yet he was banged up with criminals, real ones not the horticultural types like you and I. Honestly you would think these genius's would figure out that given the fucked nature of our coffers that it makes not a jot of sense to be locking up growers who have no affiliation with criminal gangs or drug dealing, in the same way that it's a waste of money and common sense to lock up some poor sod who cant pay their tv licence.
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03-18-2011, 07:39 PM	#8
Madrus Rose post 69 Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,497	Maybe after Law school , he'll help effect change in the laws Now he's a lucky lad... & has first hand experience. (Time to go back to hitting the books ....5yr suspended is no joke ) __________________ "If you always tell the truth , you don't have to remember anything" ~Mark Twain~
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01-12-2011, 08:03 PM	#2
BOSCO Guest Posts: n/a	With the way jobs are in this country he should have received a grant from the IDA or Enterprise Ireland for opening his "factory"
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01-12-2011, 10:16 PM	#4
Ironeek Banned Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 214	Moral of the story dont grow safe medicinal herbs.....support the gangs and hardened criminals instead who sell silica covered crap and push coke and pip laden pills among the irish youth.... WELL FUCKING DONE
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09-01-2011, 07:02 PM	#9
johnny c New Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 15	guys most would get sent forward to high court where the minumin is 4 years jail ,id be happy for xmas in jail for all that in ireland
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