Collopy gets 3 months cut from jail term

Limerick man Damien Collopy will be released next week after the Court of Criminal Appeal suspended the remaining three months of his five-year jail term for making threats to kill.

In May 2011 Damien Collopy, aged 23, and his brother Kieran Collopy, aged 37, were sentenced to eight years with three suspended by Judge Carroll Moran at Limerick Circuit Criminal Court having pleaded guilty to threatening to kill or cause serious harm to Willie Moran on Apr 14, 2010.

Damien Collopy, with a last address at St Mary's Park, was due for release in early January.