A round-up of today's other stories in brief
Eight years for man who said he found cannabis under a tree
A man who claimed he found cannabis herb worth more than €54,000 under a tree outside his home has received an eight-year sentence. Tomasz Przyjemski (25) told gardaí he was not holding the drugs for anyone, he was not going to sell them and he did not have a drug problem.
Przyjemski, from Gdansk in Poland, of Shantalla Road, Beaumont, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possessing 4.5kg of the drug, worth €54,000, in March 2010.
Judge Donagh McDonagh said he would give Przyjemski full credit for his early guilty plea and suspended the final two years of the sentence with a recommendation for deportation immediately on his release.
Guilty plea for exploiting child
A woman is to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in relation to the sexual exploitation of a child.
The 39-year-old woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to two counts of using a child for the purposes of sexual exploitation in Dublin between May 1st and 31st, 2008.
Judge Patrick McCartan set a sentence date of March 21st when full facts will be heard.
Appeal fails over eight-year terms
Two men have lost an appeal against their eight-year sentences for possessing explosives.
The Special Criminal Court had imposed an eight-year sentence with two years suspended on Garrett Pigott (28) of Philipsburgh Terrace, Marino, Dublin, and sentenced co-accused Jonathan Keogh (25), of Upper Seán McDermott Street, Dublin, to eight years in prison, after they were arrested at a suspected INLA bomb-making factory in 2008.