Boy, 17, awaits sentence for crime spree

A Balbriggan teenager will be sentenced next week for a crime spree which included violently robbing an elderly man, mugging several train commuters and breaking a girl's collarbone and a garda's nose.

The 17-year-old youth who cannot be named for legal reasons and an accomplice broke into a 78-year-man's home and when they learned he didn't have any money the accomplice hit him with a hammer before they ransacked the house.