A man who robbed a cash-in- transit box containing €50,000 a month after he robbed a teenager of €1,700 worth of entertainment equipment has been sentenced to five years in prison.

A man on early release from a five-year sentence who sprayed blood from his cut hands into the faces of four gardaí after claiming he had ‘the virus’ has been jailed for a further three years by Judge Elizabeth Dunne at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.