Dublin man gets six years for damaging Monet painting

A Dublin man has been given a six-year sentence after being convicted of damaging a Claude Monet painting estimated to be worth €10m at the National Gallery of Ireland.

Andrew Shannon (aged 49) of Willians Way, Ongar had pleaded not guilty to damaging the Claude Monet painting entitled Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sail Boat (1874) at the National Gallery of Ireland on Clare Street on June 29, 2012.