Five more years for addict

A crack addict who has spent most of his adult life in jail has been sentenced to another five years term by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for a string of violent robberies and a burglary.

Philip McCann (aged 31), Shancastle Park, Clondalkin pleaded guilty to four counts of robbing a chip shop, a pharmacy and a betting shop and one count of burglary of a house in Lucan between November 2006 and March 2007.