Individual sentenced for storing guns

A former alcoholic who stored two guns for an illegal organisation was jailed for three and a half years by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Owen Clail (aged 39), a father of two, of Stanhope St, Dublin 7 pleaded guilty last March to the unlawful possession of a Glock semi automatic pistol , a .38 inch revolver and twelve rounds of ammunition at his apartment at Stanhope St on October 2, 2007.