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A 31-year-old woman, facing a charge of stealing a handbag, has 326 previous convictions and a number of outstanding bench warrants.

A woman with more than 300 previous convictions has been sentenced to 21 months’ imprisonment for a number of thefts in Tralee and Killarney during the Rose of Tralee festival last year.