A 50-year-old man whose “modus operandi” was targeting vulnerable people in burglaries has been handed a four-year jail sentence.

A district court judge yesterday declined jurisdiction to deal with a Cork man accused of a series of burglaries in Kerry.

WALKING along the golden sands of Ballybunion on a calm, sunny day, it was hard to imagine the ferocity of the waves and storms that relentlessly battered the coastline just a short time before.