Drug dealer’s sentence extended after further convictions

By Isabel Hayes

A man who is serving a sentence for drug dealing has had his jail term extended by 15 months for further offences of drug dealing and money laundering.

Colin Radburn (37) was jailed for four and a half years in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court last November after he was pulled over at a garda checkpoint in February 2025 and found to have €350,000 worth of cocaine and £15,520 in cash in his van.

Seven months prior to this offence, Radburn was pulled over at another random garda checkpoint and drugs and cash were again found in his van.

He appeared before the court today on signed guilty pleas to one count of possessing cannabis, one count of possessing the drugs for sale or supply and one count of money laundering in Dublin on July 4, 2024.

These charges relate to €19,218 of cannabis and €23,500 in cash which gardai found when they searched his van.

Radburn, of Killinarden Heights, Tallaght, Dublin 24, made admissions in custody and told gardai he had a drug debt and was under pressure to transport the drugs and the cash.

He now has 32 previous convictions, including the offences he carried out in February 2025.

Sentencing him today, Judge Martin Nolan said that had he been dealing with the offence on its own, he would have set a sentence of three years.

But he accepted Radburn is already serving a long sentence. He said he must extend this sentence “even though this bad behaviour pre-dated” the other offence.

He extended the sentence by 15 months, noting that this meant a combined sentence of five years and nine months for both cases.

He declined a defence application to suspend any of this sentence.