Imposing sentence on Monday, Judge Pauline Codd said, “one can't understate the cowardice of a group of people attacking one person from behind,” she said.

Gardaí seized tablets worth an estimated €32,200 and arrested a man following searches in the Ballymun area of Dublin 11 on Friday afternoon

The search operation occurred in a "residential complex" in Finglas, on the city's northside, and was part of a wider operation targeting organised crime in the capital.