Camera pulled off wall in toilets

A Wicklow man attending a lap-dancing club in Cork took exception to a security camera over a urinal and pulled it off the toilet wall.

Solicitor Maurice O’Connor said it was a moment of madness by the man who was never in trouble of that kind before.

Chris Smith, aged 41, of 2 The Avenue, Downshire Park, Blessington, pleaded guilty to a charge of causing criminal damage at The Great Escape, Leitrim St, Cork. He caused €397 worth of damage by ripping the CCTV camera off the wall on November 4 last year.