Man gets four-year sentence for possession of firearm

A 25-year-old north Dublin man who stored an AK47 assault rifle in his pregnant girlfriend's house because he owed a drug debt of €1,250 has been sentenced to four years imprisonment by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Judge Katherine Delahunt suspended the final year of Robert Whelan s sentence after he pleaded guilty to possession of the firearm at an address in Casement Close in Finglas on April 26, 2007. A further count of possession of 99 rounds of ammunition was taken into account.