Robber asks to be jailed to help him give up heroin

A robber has asked a judge in Dublin Circuit Criminal to jail him as he couldn’t give up heroin on the outside.

John O’Brien (aged 28), of Fernhill Court, Springfield, Tallaght pleaded guilty to robbing Mr Jamie Kenny of an iPod on December 17 last year as he waited for a Luas on Abbey Street in the city centre.