A man named in the High Court as the leader of a north Dublin organised crime group known as 'The Gucci Gang' has been jailed for five-and-a-half years.
Glen Ward admitted firing a semi-automatic rifle on New Year's Day 2022 at the back of a house in Finglas.
The incident was filmed, and gardaí recovered the video clip on a phone.
Earlier this month Ward's brother, 23-year-old Eric O'Driscoll, was jailed for five years for the same offence.
Ward is a senior figure in organised crime in north Dublin with links to the Kinahan Organised Crime Group.
People who buy illegal drugs are 'directly supporting criminals'
Known in Finglas as 'Mr Flashy', the 32-year-old gunman was named in the High Court by a senior organised crime investigator and the head of the Criminal Assets Bureau as the leader of the so-called 'Gucci Gang'.
A criminal outfit comprised of volatile, violent, reckless and highly dangerous young men, the gang was named because of its members' predilection for luxury goods, designer clothes, expensive watches, jewellery and high-value cars.
The gang also feuded with rival criminal gangs over control of the drugs trade that resulted in beatings, shootings, arson attacks and at least six murders, including those of gang members Zach Parker and Sean Little, both friends of Ward.
Ward was caught after he and his brother were filmed firing an AR 15 semi-automatic rifle at the back of a house in Finglas on 1 January 2022, at a house party in front of a group of young people.
Ward fired once, O'Driscoll fired three shots.
Gardaí recovered the gun along with a sub-machine gun, magazines and ammunition and then found the phone with the video clip in a taxi four months later, after Ward had been shot at.
Ward has 20 previous convictions for road traffic offences, criminal damage and assault.
He has previously been formally warned by gardaí that his life was in danger and has been in protective custody for seven months, locked up in a cell with his brother for 23-and-a-half hours a day.
The Special Criminal Court has ordered that because of fears for the men’s safety, neither their addresses nor the prisons in which they are in be published.
The officer in charge of the investigation said criminals like Ward and O'Driscoll act and believe they are above the law as they inflict significant harm and tragedy upon the communities in which they live and operate from.
Detective Superintendent Paul Murphy warned there was nothing positive these criminals can offer and that their actions are motivated by greed and are only self-serving.
"You are disposable to them," he said.
He also said that although people who use illegal drugs predominantly cocaine, might consider themselves removed from organised crime and live in comfortable communities, every time they buy or consume, they are directly supporting criminals like Ward and O’Driscoll and the misery they have inflicted on their communities.
The detective superintendent also said that these convictions were a clear message to anyone involved in organised crime that the gardaí will investigate and bring them to justice before the courts.
He also said he wanted to reassure the people of Finglas and the wider community that they are working to keep them safe.
Ms Justice Melanie Greally said Ward was seen encouraging his younger brother in the "socially harmful act of discharging firearm for audience of impressionable young people".
She sentenced him to six years and three months with the final nine months suspended on condition he agrees to stay away from six named people and be of good behaviour for 12 months.
