Cork man gets a year in prison for thefts including tablet that had hotel's confidential records

The man was previously convicted of theft 79 times

Judge Mary Dorgan imposed a total sentence of 12 months, made up of a number of consecutive sentences. File picture: Dan Linehan

A total jail sentence of one year was imposed on a 35-year-old man who was previously convicted of theft 79 times and has now confessed to several more offences — some of them committed in the last few weeks.

But he told the sentencing judge he would not be coming before the courts again: “That will be the end of it,” John McDonagh of 1 Inchera Close, Mahon, told Judge Mary Dorgan.