{"id":229691,"date":"2026-01-06T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/229691\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:00:09","slug":"limerick-homeless-woman-appears-to-view-prison-as-a-holiday-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/229691\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick homeless woman &#8216;appears to view prison as a holiday home&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A HOMELESS woman who \u201cenjoys prison\u201d has been charged with breaching a barring order and criminal damage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> District Court heard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The woman &#8211; who cannot be named to protect the identity of her family who took out a barring order against her &#8211; \u201cappears to view prison as a holiday home\u201d, according to Judge Patricia Harney.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The woman\u2019s probation report put forward that \u201cshe liked prison life and appears to enjoy mixing with her fellow inmates\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The probation report also detailed that the woman said she wouldn\u2019t be in a position to attend probation appointments.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/1979543\/limerick-childrens-court-judge-congratulates-a-young-new-father-15-years-of-age.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick Children\u2019s court judge congratulates a young new father, 15 years of age<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Judge Harney stated: \u201cI\u2019m not buying this business that she\u2019s not attending probation and welfare services\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The judge added: \u201cI need her to understand these are court orders. There are consequences.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Solicitor John Herbert, representing the woman, said that \u201chomelessness is a huge part of this\u201d and that the woman has been in touch with a homelessness service to secure permanent accommodation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Funded by the Courts Reporting Scheme.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A HOMELESS woman who \u201cenjoys prison\u201d has been charged with breaching a barring order and criminal damage, Limerick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,29289,61,60,1396,44,7250,43],"class_list":["post-229691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-homelessness","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick","tag-limerick-city","tag-limerick-district-court","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229691","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=229691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}