Attempted robbery: Four men charged

FOUR men have appeared in court in connection with an attempted robbery of a cash-in-transit van last year, during which one man was fatally shot by gardaí.

The four were all charged with possession of a sawn-off shotgun with the intention of committing robbery and the attempted robbery of a Securicor employee.

The Group 4 Securicor security van was delivering money at the time to a Centra shop ATM in the Foxborough estate, Lucan, Co Dublin.