A round-up of today's other stories in brief...
Second man held on suspicion of aggravated burglary in Ardee
Gardaí investigating the murder of Dublin man Stephen Hanaphy (20) in Ardee, Co Louth last Friday yesterday arrested a 26-year-old man on suspicion of carrying out an aggravated burglary.
He is the second man to be arrested on suspicion of burglary during which Mr Hanaphy was shot and later died. The deceased, from Cromcastle Court in Coolock, was one of four men from Dublin who broke into a house in the Sliabh Breagh estate in Ardee at about 11pm on Friday. It appears the two men in the house opened fire on the four.
The man was taken to Drogheda Garda station.
Man gets five years for drugs offence
A Dublin man was jailed for five years at Trim Circuit Court yesterday for having drugs for sale or supply to others.
Edward McAnaspie (23), with an address at Balcurris Road, Ballymun, pleaded guilty to having the cannabis herb, worth in excess of €13,000, at Millfarm, Dunboyne, Co Meath on August 14th, 2008.
The court was told he is a brother of Daniel McAnaspie who was murdered while in the care of the HSE.
Caroline Biggs SC, defending, said her client was the eldest of six children and when his father died when Edward was just 11 years old he took over his parenting role. A character reference from Fr Peter McVerry was handed into the court. Judge Michael O’Shea said McAnaspie had no convictions at the time and, “in many ways was the ideal person to be recruited because he had no convictions”.
Boat laden with US mail beaches in Mayo
A mini-sailboat crammed with messages from school pupils in Maine, USA, survived two hurricanes on a 4,000-mile plus journey to an isolated beach in Co Mayo.
Local farmer Michael Cafferkey discovered the 4.5m long boat on Fahy Strand, Ballycroy, where a 900-tonne vessel of the Spanish Armada was shipwrecked in 1588.
Students at Old Town Elementary School in Maine on the north eastern corner of the US have been relieved to hear their craft is safe and hope to have it returned. The students had been tracking the boat by satellite but feared it had been lost when its global positioning system broke down. The boat, the K Kids Cruiser, was one of five launched from the US east coast to study ocean wind and current patterns.