PATRICK KAVANAGH, a poet with a remarkable feel for rural life, once said that a man that cannot find happiness and contentment in a turf bog is a ‘’bad case’’. As someone that walks in bogs year-round, I fully concur.

A Romanian teenager, who was found guilty of trespassing at the home of a 78-year-old woman, has been remanded on continuing bail pending sentence at the Dublin Children’s Court.