Armed robber given seven years for gun possession

A convicted armed robber who was caught by a garda surveillance operation at the "handover" of a semiautomatic pistol has been given a six-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Jason Flynn (aged 36) had recently been released from a seven-year sentence for robbery during which he threatened to shoot a garda who tried to arrest him after he took more than €17,000 from a National Irish Bank branch in 2002.