Man fell asleep after breaking into golf club
The stolen car, an Audi A4, was found impaled on security bollards outside the club with the engine still running.
Wayne Keogh, 33, admitted burglary and the unlawful use of a car at the Slade Valley Golf Club in Saggart on December 20, 2012.
Judge Carmel Stewart remanded him in custody for sentencing on March 31.
The father-of-one was on bail at the time for a series of burglaries and attempted house break-ins carried out in Dundrum a few months earlier on October 22, 2012.
He pleaded guilty to all the offences, telling gardaí they were “an act of desperation” committed in the throes of his addiction to heroin and crack cocaine.
Keogh, of Russell View in Tallaght, was described in court as “a deep thinker and a highly intelligent man” who has not been not been given adequate services or support in life.
Sarah Jane O’Callaghan, defending, told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that her client is a “very good person” when not on drugs. She said Keogh was sentenced to two years in prison at the age of 13, where he began dabbling in drugs.
“From the moment he started getting into prison, the answer seems to have been to put him away and lock him up. It hasn’t worked,” she said.
The court heard that when not in prison, Keogh has been heavily involved in working for the Irish Cancer Society. After working for the charity in a voluntary capacity, they hired him and described him in a letter to court as a “model employee”.
Keogh has 44 previous convictions, including 20 for theft, nine for road traffic offences, three for drugs offences and one for assault.
