Norwegian killer Anders Breivik has been sentenced to 21 years in prison after being declared not insane.

The 33-year-old killed 77 people in a gun and bomb attack last summer.

Breivik smirked as he walked into the court room and raised his fist in salute.

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“I was sitting just a metre and a half next to him down the front row – I could look straight into his eyes” he said.

“There was no doubt that he was very happy with this verdict”.

“That’s what he said all the time – that he is sane and he wanted to be declared sane, he wants to go to prison”.

“We have no life sentence here in Norway, so in reality this is the closest you get – Breivik can be kept in prison as long as he’s deemed a threat to society” he continued.

“And most experts say that will in reality mean the rest of his life” he added.

Bjorn Kasper Ilaug helped to rescue some of the survivors of the shooting on Utoya Island.

He says he is pleased with the verdict.

“The court has made this whole decision based on their interpretation of the Norwegian law, and that’s the way it should be” he said.

“It’s a coincidence that Breivik wanted this”.

“Another criminal could prefer a type of insanity judge(ment)” he added.

IBRC – formerly Anglo Irish Bank – has recorded a loss of €724 million in the 6 months to the end of June.

That is up from €105 million at the half point last year.

The increase is down to the bank setting aside more money to deal with bad property loans.

€25 million in the accounts has been set aside for ‘legacy issues’.

This is thought to include the cost of sending investigators around the world to track bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn’s assets.

Mike Aynsley is the Chief Executive of IBRC.

He has been responding to claims that IBRC is preventing the Quinn family from recouping 500 million euro in property assets by taking out injunctions against them.

“You know you sort of go into these interviews and you think…there are things you don’t want to comment on because of all before the High Court” he said.

“We’re hoping that the Quinn’s will move forward and comply with the court orders”.

“No – we are not preventing them in any way, shape or form from complying with the court orders; they just need to move forward now and do what the courts have asked them to do and purge their contempt” he added.

A body recovered from a river in Co. Wicklow yesterday has been formally identified as that of missing man James Sheehan.

The 18-year-old from Arklow disappeared in the early hours of Sunday morning.

He went missing after a night out in a club with friends.

It sparked a major search operation in the Arklow area amid fears the teenager had been abducted.

It involved over 100 volunteers as well as several Garda units.

James’ remains were found in the Avoca River yesterday evening.

A post mortem to determine his cause of death will be carried out at Loughlinstown Hospital today.

Local Councillor Pat Fitzgerald said the entire community is in mourning.

“Very, very sad – I mean talking to the people last night…their thoughts are with his parents and with his extended family” he said.

“I spoke to his father last night at some length…obviously he’s in a very, very bad way – but he just couldn’t be thankful enough to the people of Arklow and the people who went out and searched for James” he added.

What’s in a kiss? Apparently more than we realise.

A survey has found that men interpret kisses in texts as a sexual advance.

9 out of 10 women surveyed said they regularly put kisses at the end of communiques to work colleagues.

Newstalk’s Jack Quann has more.