{"id":658530,"date":"2026-10-18T15:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/658530\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T15:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:56:11","slug":"cork-man-charged-with-possession-of-heroin-and-cannabis-at-his-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/658530\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork man charged with possession of heroin and cannabis at his home\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has directed trial by indictment at Cork Circuit Criminal Court in the case against a man accused of having heroin at his home at Model Farm Road in Cork last December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Sergeant David Fleming said at Cork District Court that the DPP directed trial by judge and jury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Dominic Smyth, aged 51, of Greenfields, Leesdale, Cork, is charged with possession of<br class=\"HardReturn\"\/>diamorphine (heroin) and having drugs for the purpose of sale or supply where the alleged value of the drugs is over \u20ac7,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">He is also charged with having a much smaller amount of cannabis for sale or supply on the same occasion on December 2, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Solicitor Joseph Cuddigan applied for a copy of prosecution statements so that the defence could decide if Mr Smyth will enter a signed plea of guilty or if the case will be contested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Judge David Waters adjourned the case until November 9 for that purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has directed trial by indictment at Cork Circuit Criminal Court in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-658530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-court","tag-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}