Pair of 'inept' burglars jailed after being caught red-handed leaving Cork shop

Judge Kelleher said of the first defendant, Stephen Keenan: “I don’t know did he even get past the door it was so inefficient.”

Sergeant Gearóid Davis outlined the background to the burglary at the Ecco shoe shop on St. Patrick’s Street. Picture: iStock

A court has heard that two men engaged in an inept burglary at a shoe shop in Cork city centre were caught as they came out the front door of the premises carrying a cash register.

Both men were jailed for nine months by Judge Olann Kelleher at Cork District Court.