Man who ran cocaine 'manufacturing plant' remanded

A Tallaght man who was running "a manufacturing plant" by mixing and storing cocaine in his place of work has been remanded in custody pending sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Padraig Murphy (aged 37), of Kilmartin Avenue, was caught with €172,500 worth of cocaine, along with tape, metal moulds, a mixing agent and a wrapping machine in three lockers in the premises.