"It's how they make a living"....

Four flower selling Romanian women, from Tipperary and Athlone, received a three month sentence, suspended for one year, for stealing an inebriated mans wallet whilst he lay slumped and distracted on the street, in the early hours of last Saturday morning. They pleaded guilty to the charges of theft. One of the Romanian women has previous convictions for theft. It was alleged that three of them surrounded the inebriated man while one of them stood watch and acted as a look out.

Their legal advisor, Sarah Ryan Solicitor,  acknowledged that these women took advantage of this man but claimed that the inebriated man had initially handed them some change when his wallet fell to the ground and they apparently picked it up!

It was reckless more than anything else" Sarah Ryan

Tom O'Donnell wanted to know what they were doing on the streets of Limerick when they were based in Tipperary and Athlone, to which Sarah Ryan replied..........(this has to be quote of the week!)....

 "It's how they make a living"

So.......does that make theft all right then?!?!? Tom O'Donnell seems to think so!
Maybe it's down to flower power!


It was not too long ago, only last week in fact,  that two other Romanian woman were before the court for prositution. Plain clothes Gardai watched (sure aren't they doing a lot of watching these days! *cough*) the women for a period of time as they approached cars. They were arrested and their defence was that they were unable to find work and had children to fend for. They pleaded guilty and O'Donnell remanded the matter to the 13th of October, stating that the matter would be struck out if there were no further charges.