Man jailed for €26k burglary of family-run woollen mills in West Cork

The court was told the accused, who was jailed, was under pressure to pay a drugs debt

The court heard the crime was committed on August 10 last year at Quills Woollen Mills in Glengarriff. File picture: Ellie O'Byrne

A family-run business, Quills in Glengarriff, was significantly impacted by a burglary which saw €26,000 worth of stock being stolen and now one of those involved in the crime has been sentenced to two years and six months imprisonment.

48-year-old Anthony Curtis who was living at The Perrin Inn, Glengarriff, County Cork, was sentenced by Judge Helen Boyle at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to a sentence of three-and-a-half years with the last year suspended, backdated to August 14, 2025, when he went into custody.