Two Dublin gunmen have been jailed in separate organised crime cases today at the Special Criminal Court.
Forty-year-old Trevor Byrne, from Cappagh Road in Finglas who previously pointed a gun at gardaí, was sent to prison for nine years.
Bernard Fogarty, 32, from Hole in the Wall Road, Donaghmede, who the court heard is "heavily involved in organised crime", was jailed for five years.
Mr Justice Tony Hunt said the court cannot ignore the damage done by gun crime.
The Head of the Garda's Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau, Detective Chief Superintendent Angela Willis, said the convictions will keep people and communities safe.
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Two more experienced recidivist gangland criminals with links to organised crime who were both caught with guns were jailed today.
Trevor Byrne was caught with a loaded 9mm Luger and magazine, gloves, hold-all and balaclava.
Gardaí believe he was preparing to shoot a major rival Dublin criminal. Over €3,000 was also found in his pocket.
He refused to comply with the gardaí when found sitting on a sofa on the gun in a seomra room at the back of a house in Clondalkin in November last year and had to be arrested at gunpoint.
Byrne has 40 previous convictions including armed robbery and pointing a gun at gardaí and was arrested and questioned about the Kinahan feud murder in 2016 of Eddie Hutch, the brother of the rival Hutch gang leader Gerard Hutch.
Today he was jailed for nine years.
Bernard Fogarty admitted possession of a RAK sub machine gun gardaí found in the passenger footwell of a car stopped in Shankill last March.
He has 40 previous convictions and the court was told is heavily involved in organised crime.
The 32-year-old was jailed today for five years.
Both men were linked to the weapons by DNA.
Mr Justice Tony Hunt said that the court could not ignore the damage done by gun crime.
