A 39-year-old man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for mixing cocaine at his home in Blanchardstown in west Dublin.
Rory Lyons was mixing cocaine for a drugs gang run by the Glennon brothers who were both shot dead in gang-related killings in 2005.
Lyons was caught with almost €500,000 worth of cocaine along with a mixing agent, industrial compressor and other drug paraphernelia.
The father of five had no previous convictions.
Andrew and Mark Glennon's gang took over from the so-called Westies gang in the greater Blanchardstown area and trafficked huge quantities of drugs until both men were murdered in 2005.
Lyons diluting huge quantities of cocaine with the mixing agent manitol for the gang at his home in Fortlawn Park in Blanchardstown.
When gardaí from the Blanchardstown Drugs Unit raided his house on 21 September 2004, Lyons was found wearing Latex gloves surrounded by buckets of manitol.
He claimed in court that he was an alcoholic and cocaine addict but Judge Katherine Delahunt rejected that defence.
She said the evidence was that he was a recreational drug user and that his crime was more serious due to the fact that he was involved in manufacturing the drug.
After sentencing him to 12 years in prison, she suspended the last four because of his family circumstances.
