Teenage pitch and putt star jailed for robbery

A teenager who represented Cork in the sport of pitch and putt became addicted to prescription tablets and ended up being jailed yesterday for accosting people on the street to rob them of small amounts of money.

Seán Doolan, of 31 Greenmount Crescent, Cork, was sentenced to three years yesterday, with the last 18 months suspended.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin said at Cork Circuit Criminal Court: “By far and away the largest cohort of cases for years past is robberies from the person. And the victims are always left with sense of being abused, a sense of trauma and frightened in the location of the robbery into the future.”