Cork man who set upon off-duty prison officer jailed for nine months for attempted robbery

Man has 32 previous convictions, including six for robbery

The court heard the off-duty prison officer was pushed against a wall during the incident.

An off-duty prison officer was set upon in a late night incident in Cork city centre and today a 51-year-old man was jailed for nine months for attempted robbery.

The accused man, Jeremiah Foley, asked Judge John King through his solicitor Eddie Burke to suspend a portion of the sentence. Judge King refused this application because of what he described as the recidivist nature of the defendant’s offending.