Heroin addict gets 8 months

A heroin addict was found lying across a pew in a Cork church last Christmas Eve with the paraphernalia of drug use scattered around him and yesterday the 28-year-old was jailed for eight months for that and a series of shoplifting offences.

Garda Stephen Aherne responded to a call to Blackpool church on December 24 2014.

Inspector Eileen Foster said yesterday that Shane Murphy was lying across a pew in the church in Blackpool at the time.