'Scourge' of Sligo gets 11 years for directing organised crime

Barry Young, a 38-year-old man from Sligo, has been sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment at the Special Criminal Court for directing a criminal organisation that operated across the northwest between October 2019 and January 2022. Mr Justice Tony Hunt imposed the custodial term following Young's guilty plea to the charge, which carried a maximum penalty of sixteen years. The sentence was subsequently reduced to…