Man gets six-year term for damaging Monet painting

Andrew Shannon, 49, of Willians Way, Ongar, Dublin, had pleaded not guilty to damaging the painting, Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sail Boat (1874), on June 29, 2012.
A jury of seven women and five men returned a verdict of guilty on that charge yesterday afternoon following almost one-and-a-half hours of deliberation on day eight of the trial.