Man jailed for machine gun & ammo rap

A MAN told gardai he was holding a 9mm sub-machine pistol, silencer and ammunition because he had a drugs debt of €20,000, a court has heard.

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The gun was hidden in a car parked at the home of Glen Dempsey, 30, who was yesterday jailed for two years.

Dempsey, of Cuthbert Meadows, Clondalkin, Co Dublin, was sent forward from the District Court on signed pleas of possession of a firearm, ammunition and a silencer in suspicious circumstances on May 15 last year.