A 40-year-old man has been sentenced to five years in prison for his part in last year's robbery of over €7.5m from the Bank of Ireland on College Green in Dublin.
Mark Donoghue from Killeen, in Leggan Co Longford, agreed to hold and hand over €1.75m of the cash to the gang.
On the night of 26 February 2009 a gang forced their way into the home of bank employee Shane Travers in Kilteel and took his partner, Stephanie Smith, her mother, Joan Smith and Joan's five-year-old grandson hostage.
The family was taken away in their car, while Shane Travers was then forced to drive his car to the bank on College Green.
After withdrawing the money, he handed it over to the gang at Clontarf DART station. His family was then released in the Ashbourne in Co Meath.
The judge at the Circuit Criminal Court accepted that Donoghue did not know that a family, including a five-year-old child, was held at gunpoint as part of the robbery.
