Last day for DPP to appeal O’Donoghue jail term

THE Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has until the end of today to lodge an appeal against the four-year jail term handed to Wayne O’Donoghue.

O’Donoghue was last month jailed for four years for the manslaughter of 11-year-old Robert Holohan, triggering an angry reaction from the boy’s family.

The boy’s mother, Majella Holohan, wrote to DPP James Hamilton asking him to appeal against what she said was the shortness of the sentence.