Wannabe robber apologised and fled store empty-handed

A wannabe robber told a frightened shop owner “sorry” during the course of an attempted robbery before fleeing from the shop empty- handed.

At Ennis Circuit Court yesterday, Dermot McGuane escaped a jail term for the attempted robbery at Carmel’s Health Store on Ennis’s Francis St on March 18, 2015, when Judge Gerald Keys imposed a two-year suspended jail term on the man.

The court heard how a nervy McGuane, aged 32, of Dromard, Lahinch Rd, Ennis, Co Clare, walked around the streets of Ennis a number of times and drank alcohol to build up Dutch courage to carry out a daylight robbery of Carmel’s Health Store.