Man gets six years for 'barging' into Dublin house

A 43-year-old man who barged into a house and threatened a woman and her three children with a firearm has been sentenced to six years imprisonment by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

John O'Hanlon, of Millwood Villas Kilbarrack, walked into a garda station in June 2007 and admitted the offence which had taken place four years earlier. He pleaded guilty to possession of a 0.22 calibre rifle at an address in Kilbarrack on April 7, 2003.