President danced to burglar’s tune

A burglar who played guitar and sang during a presidential visit to Cork prison got a sentence of three years for his latest crime yesterday.

The burglar was chased from the scene of his crime by a woman carrying her baby in a sling, despite the fact that he had threatened the householders as he fled.

And yesterday as the burglar was jailed, it emerged that President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina danced to a tune sung and played on guitar by the accused during a visit to the new Cork prison.