Homeless men broke windows to get bed in jail

TWO homeless brothers who felt they couldn’t survive sleeping rough broke six windows at a bank in the hope of getting beds in a jail cell, a court heard yesterday.

Anthony Donnelly, aged 41, and his brother Michael, aged 42, broke the windows at the National Irish Bank in Cork city, but weren’t arrested because the building’s faulty alarm did not go off.

They waited 20 minutes outside the building at South Mall but no gardaí arrived. Eventually, they went to Anglesea Street Garda Station and reported their crime on Sunday morning.