Homeless man was sleeping in West Cork holiday home laundry

Court was told accused was a rough sleeper at the time, and had spent several nights sleeping in the outbuilding of a Clonakilty holiday home

The court was told laundry was found 'spread around' the shed as if someone had been using it to sleep on and a window to the shed had also been broken to the value of €180. Picture: Dan Linehan

A homeless man in West Cork was using the discarded laundry from a holiday home as bedding in a nearby shed, the district court has been told.

Clonakilty District Court heard Jim Cowhig, 52, of Tawnies Crescent, Clonakilty and formerly of no fixed abode, had entered a shed at a holiday rental property in Clonakilty without the owner’s permission.