'Promising footballer' caught with shotgun cartridges

A teenager with "promising prospects" for international football who was caught with 19 shotgun cartridges has received a one year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is "of the kind of calibre that could play for Ireland", defence counsel, Mr Breffni Gordon BL, said but added: "That would be easy enough considering their current form."