Man avoids jail for role in robbing pensioner
Joseph Lernihan, with an address at Finnuremore Park, Mullagh, had pleaded guilty at Ennis Circuit Criminal Court to two counts of robbery at the home of the then 68-year-old Michael McMahon on two separate occasions in February 2012.
On March 3, 2014, Judge Carroll Moran gave Lernihan a suspended three-year sentence, ordering him to pay €3,780 compensation and to forfeit a Volkswagen Passat he purchased with the proceeds of his crime.
