A Dublin man who was caught by gardaí when his getaway motorbike left without him after he had set a car on fire has had his prison sentence reduced from 10 to eight years.

THE man arrested on suspicion of drink driving following a fatal car crash at the weekend was a former garda, it emerged yesterday.

TOP GUN Nicholas Flood suffers from osteoporosis — a condition that was fortunately detected and reversed before it did any long-term damage to him.