Man jailed for screw-driver raid on family home

A man who took part on an armed raid on a young family's home has been sentenced to four years in prison by Judge Patricia Ryan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Anthony Hyland (aged 23), of Blackhorse Grove, Grangegorman was armed with a screwdriver and was one of four men who beat up and threatened Mr Seamus O'Farrell, the owner of the house on the Old Cabra Road, while his wife and young children slept upstairs.