11 years for robber who left shopkeeper with life-changing injuries after hammer attack

A man from Strokestown, County Longford, has been sentenced to eleven years imprisonment following a violent hammer attack on a Dublin shopkeeper in March 2017. John McKeon, aged 31, was convicted by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of robbery, attempted robbery and assault causing serious harm after he and his cousin targeted Tansey's Newsagent on Fitzmourice Road, Finglas. During the attack, McKeon struck the…