Serial thief jailed for 11 years

A cocaine addict who committed a string of robberies across Dublin’s Southside has been jailed for 11 years by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Noel Kinsella (aged 30), of St Anthony’s Road, Rialto, pleaded guilty to offences arising from nine incidents in which he variously robbed cash from shops, threatened employees with knives and stole cars between April and December 2004.