Judge gives seven years to foiled robber

A father of one whose getaway car was pushed into a ditch by a garda after a foiled Enniskerry robbery has been given a seven-year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

David Shannon (aged 29) of St Andrew's Court, in Dublin city centre was one of two men who tried to raid a Brinks security van as it pulled into The Scalp Service Station at Enniskerry when a garda patrol car arrived in the forecourt.