Man gets four years for attack

A man who beat an elderly trophy-maker with his own trophies before robbing him of IR£130 has been jailed for four years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man who beat an elderly trophy-maker with his own trophies before robbing him of 'the princely sum' of IR£130 has been jailed for four years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Anthony Carrick, aged 24, of Knowth Court, Ballymun, pleaded guilty to robbery of the 60-year-old trophy-maker on July 10, 2000 at Curragh Trophies, Oatfield Industrial Estate, Clondalkin.