'You need to keep busy': Judge gives vandal in Cork chance to avoid criminal record

When the defendant was asked why he did it he said: 'I like to draw.'

The Cork man was ordered to engage with the Probation Service with a view to training and employment and also ordered him to carry out 15 hours of voluntary work. File picture

A Cork man who admitted vandalising a local shop has been given a chance by a district court judge to avoid a criminal conviction if he can make amends for the damage caused. 

The accused man, Joe Byrne, aged 20, of Breeny Beg, Kealkill, Co Cork appeared before a recent sitting of Bantry District Court.