Trespasser jailed for refusing to leave house

A middle-aged woman was jailed yesterday for contempt of a court order requiring her to leave a house in a Cork suburb that she was occupying unlawfully.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin held Helena O’Callaghan in contempt of an order requiring her to leave a house at Kilmoney Woods, Carrigaline.

“You are trespassing in breach of a court order,” the judge said at Cork Circuit Court.