Trinity graduate due home after US robbery jail term

A one-time high-achieving Trinity College graduate is finally to return home, nearly 10 years after he was caught following a dramatic and reckless armed robbery of a bank in the United States.

Prize-winning computer science graduate Niall Clarke will be released next week from federal prison, then immediately deported back to Ireland.

Clarke, 34, from Clare, made headlines on both sides of the Atlantic following the 2006 armed robbery of a bank in Bangor, Maine.