Students who hacked FG election website avoid jail

Darren Martyn, aged 21, from Cloonbeggin, Claregalway, Galway, and 20-year-old Donnacha Ó Cearbhaill from The Ring, Birr, Co Offaly, were the first to be successfully prosecuted in Ireland for computer hacking.
The hi-tech whizzkids, who used the online aliases “Raepsauce” and “Palladium”, had been identified by the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation in conjunction with the FBI, Dublin District Court had heard.