Solicitor who denies bringing cocaine into prison faces additional charge

Dublin solicitor Aonghus McCarthy, 32, was originally charged in November on one charge of conveying a controlled drug into Mountjoy Prison or to a person in the prison on 8 February 2017.

He appeared before Dublin District Court – directly across the road from his practice – again this week to face an additional charge of unlawful possession of cocaine on the same date.

Mr McCarthy denies the charge from November and has not yet indicated how he will plead to the additional charge.

Judge Cormac Dunne remanded him to appear again in four weeks.