A former drug addict who is a part-time carer for his ill mother has been given a four-year suspended sentence for having cocaine worth €24,000 in his home.

A man who held cocaine valued at more than €250,000 in his disabled mother’s home because he owed €5,000 to a criminal drugs lord has had his sentence adjourned for a year by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A Dublin man who had cocaine valued at over €25,000 hidden in his bedroom in the home he shares with his disabled mother will be sentenced later by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man is still being questioned by gardaí today after a major drugs seizure last night.