Former drug dealer Howard Marks to play Galway and Dublin

Author and former international drug dealer Howard Marks is set to tour the UK and Ireland with former Happy Mondays guitarist Kav Sandhu.

The pair will hit Cuba, Galway on September 4 and the capital's Eamon Doran's on September 5. Marks was once one of the world's biggest smugglers of hash. He is a campaigner for the legalisation of cannabis.

The tour, which will also take in a number of venues around the UK, is in support of Sandhu's forthcoming release, The Mr Nice EP which comes out on August 31.