Man convicted for 'using car as a weapon'

A Dublin man who ran down an Arklow 21-year-old in his car who is the first person in Ireland to be convicted of murder using a motor vehicle as a weapon has been sentenced to eight years for related offences..

Anthony O’Reilly, aged 22, with an address at Cleggan Park, Ballyfermot, Dublin, was found guilty in April, of murdering Daniel McDonald, aged 21 on February 2 2007, after the jury deliberated for over seven hours. He has already received a mandatory life sentence for this charge.