A man serving a three-year sentence for attempting to rob a woman at an ATM machine has been given a consecutive four-year sentence for an almost identical series of robberies at ATMs in DART stations.

RETIRED senior banker John Aherne was reminded at the Mahon Tribunal yesterday he could have facilitated criminal activity and money-laundering in the early 1990s by handing out vast amounts of cash.

A robber will not be going home for Christmas this year because his release from jail would "be a disaster for himself and everyone else" according to Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.