Empty moneybox thief 'not high on the intellectual scale'

A drug addict who robbed an empty box from Securicor staff making a collection in Blanchardstown three years ago has today been given a six-year sentence by Judge Patricia Ryan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Kieran Counihan (aged 24), who is already serving a four-year sentence for transporting guns for a crime gang, held a staff member at gunpoint while robbing the Securicor box which later exploded, emitting red dye.