Judge gives accused second chance

A chronic alcoholic who staggered up with his accomplice to a security van a second too late to rob a big cash collection has been given a chance by Judge Elizabeth Dunne to sort himself out.

Paul Corrigan (aged 31) of Millbrook Avenue, Kilbarrack smashed the hammer he carried as a weapon against the window of the Brinks Allied security van and when the head flew off, so did he while dumping his mask and the hammer into a waste-skip.