Addict apologised during robbery

A HEROIN addict who was desperate for cash to buy drugs robbed a 75-year-old woman in Cork city but was apologising to her victim in the course of the robbery.

Fionnula Moloney, aged 34, was before Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday in relation to the robbery of the elderly woman on June 19, 2010 at St Patrick’s Hill, Cork.

Moloney was in court yesterday for a bail application to be released in advance of sentencing so that she could try to get on a drug rehabilitation programme.