{"id":181484,"date":"2025-12-08T18:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/181484\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:26:07","slug":"jail-for-man-who-stole-leg-of-lamb-from-a-cork-supermarket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/181484\/","title":{"rendered":"Jail for man who stole leg of lamb from a Cork supermarket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">A 26-year-old man who stole a leg of lamb from a supermarket and who also stole hundreds of euro worth of clothing from sports shops has been jailed for four months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Judge Mary Dorgan imposed the sentence on Christopher Duggan, who was residing at St Vincent\u2019s and Simon hostels in Cork.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Defence solicitor Eddie Burke said that all of the thefts were carried out in order to sell the items to pay for drink, as Duggan has an alcohol addiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The thefts were carried out at Lifestyle Sports on Patrick Street on August 21; at JD Sports on Patrick Street on September 26; at Aldi, Blackpool, where the leg of lamb and striploin steaks were stolen on November 3; at Lifestyle Sports on Patrick Street on November 5; and finally at Walsh\u2019s pharmacy on Shandon Street on November 18, where he stole \u20ac60 worth of Gillette blades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 26-year-old man who stole a leg of lamb from a supermarket and who also stole hundreds of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,2246,61,60],"class_list":["post-181484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cork-court","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}