Phone robber told to stay away from Kerry

A 21-year-old Dublin man with a large number of convictions has been told he is not to come to Kerry for two years after he admitted stealing an Apple iPhone from a woman’s purse during last year’s Rose of Tralee festival.

Radu Muntenau with an address at Applewoods Lawn, Tallaght, was handed a seven-month prison sentence, suspended on condition he pays a €1,000 to the court poor box and not enter the county of Kerry for the two-year period, after he appeared in Tralee District Court yesterday.

Muntenau arrived with €700 as compensation for his victim and handed the money to the gardaí.