Handbag thief had 220 previous convictions

Noel O'Shaughnessy was handed an 18 month sentence by Judge Olann Kelleher 

The accused man had 220 previous convictions, including 44 counts of theft and 33 counts of burglary.

A woman socialising at Cask on MacCurtain Street during the jazz festival had her handbag stolen by a man who turned up at a filling station shop minutes later buying tobacco with her bank card.

That was on Saturday, October 26, 2019, and on Monday at Cork District Court, 54-year-old Noel O’Shaughnessy was jailed for 18 months for that theft and other crimes.