Retail Therapy?

A hat trick..

On the 13th of March Mary Ryan O'Brien of Sharwood Estate, Newcastlewest (also the habitat of John Ryan, an individual with over 80 convictions ranging from public order offenses to knife possession!) AND of Ballinacurra, Weston (habitat of Darren Hehir who is currently in prison for firearm offenses. His brother Joe and Ger Dundon were involved in a  tail gating  expedition earlier this year!)  was arrested in Galway not once, not twice! but three times!!!! for shoplifting over €1,700 worth of goods from Tesco, cosmetics from a pharmacy and theft from Debenhams. (the gardai obviously didn't detain her that long on each arrest eh!).

Her Solicitor made a plea that she was on medication and that her hubby was killed in a crash back in 2009. She has over 180 previous convictions dating back to 2002. She gets around eh! Excuses her legal advisors have made over time - she needed clothes, a young mother of two, fell on hard times etc....

In January 2009 she was questioned in relation to the theft of €760 worth of cosmetics from a pharmacy in Newcastlewest and yet again, a short time later, within minutes apparently after being released, she stole from a local petrol station! All this happened while she was on 'temporary release' from prison! She was supposed to be serving a couple of months in prison for theft in 2008. The excuse presented at that time was drugs, under the influence and all that.... In April 2009 she was sentenced to six months in prison. In May 2009 she was charged with being a passenger in a stolen car.

In November 2009 she was charged with theft of €462 worth of goods from a pharmacy in Dooradoyle, Limerick. The excuse this time as that she was not stealing for her own use, but to 'move on' and 'support herself'. O'Donnell sentenced her to ten months, suspended for two years.



Christ, isn't the judicial system gone way beyond a joke!