Four years for man who robbed shop across the road from his home

A father of one who robbed the shop across the road from his own home in "one of the silliest" crimes to watch on CCTV footage has been sentenced to four years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Desmond O’Neill (aged 29) of Whitestown Green, Blanchardstown, was armed with a lump hammer when he rolled across the shop counter and demanded money from the shopkeeper, a woman he had known all his life.