Steel fabricator 'stored cocaine with market value of €133,000'

A steel fabricator who spent up to €2,000 a week on drugs has been given an eight-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for possession of a firearm and storing drugs to feed his cocaine and heroin habit.

Joseph Moore (aged 36) was a talented steal fabricator earning €800 a day in his successful gate making business who stored cocaine with a market value of €133,094 in his business premises to repay a drug debt.