Southern Editor A 46-year-old man has been jailed for seven years for laundering more than €3.5m for one of the country's most significant organised crime gangs. Darren Hoey, of Oak Drive, Ballacollig, Mountmellick Co Laois, was arrested after gardaí from the Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau seized almost €700,000 at that address, and more than €2.8 million and sterling at a cottage near Lisselton, Co Kerry. Hoey was arrested after gardaí from the Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau saw him take two bags of cash from an Audi A4 car and bring them into a cottage near Lisselton in north Kerry, which he had bought as a holiday home.