EVEN though Derek Jennings worked in addiction support, he didn’t know his own child had started using drugs. “Being a man, I said, ‘I’ll stop it’,” he says of his 14-year-old’s addiction.

A 19-year-old Clondalkin man who drove the getaway car in the Pennies from Heaven charity robbery of €132,000-worth of old coins has been jailed for four years.