The getaway driver in a bid by an organised crime gang to murder Lee Boylan in west Dublin has been jailed for ten years.
Passing sentence today, Mr Justice Michael White said this was "a well-planned attack" with a sophisticated degree of surveillance and was carried out "at the behest of a criminal organisation", which perceived that Mr Boylan had been involved in a previous attack.
The judge said Mr Boylan was shot three times at close range and his life was saved due to a "fortuitous fluke" when his gunshot wounds formed an abnormal connection between an artery and a vein that stopped him from bleeding out.