Nine years for drug-addicted raider

A drug addict who carried out three raids in premises in South Dublin has been given a nine-year sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Liam Gaynor (aged 43) asked the staff in Hughes and Hughes Bookshop in Dun Laoghaire if they were "ok" and thanked them after he had jumped over the counter and grabbed €650 from the register.