{"id":239132,"date":"2026-01-11T08:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/239132\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T08:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:06:15","slug":"laois-woman-pleaded-guilty-to-theft-from-local-businesses-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/239132\/","title":{"rendered":"Laois woman pleaded guilty to theft from local businesses &#8211; Courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A LOCAL woman with 115 previous convictions and who is currently serving a prison sentence was given two three-month suspended sentences at Portlaoise District Court last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Judge Andrew Cody was told that 39-year-old Theresa Conroy from Hynd\u2019s Square, Portlaoise was pleading guilty to the theft of \u20ac319 worth of goods from the Nook and Cranny Gift Shop, Main Street, Portlaoise and \u20ac139 worth of clothes from Dunnes Stores, Mountmellick Road, Portlaoise, both on 9 July 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The defendant\u2019s solicitor Josephine Fitzpatrick said that her client was currently serving a one-year and nine-month sentence and is due for release on 27 January next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ms Fitzpatrick said that Ms Conroy has been in custody since 28 August and was engaging well and attending school in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Judge Cody said that considering the number of previous convictions, he was convicting Ms Conroy of both offences, imposed three-month sentences, which he suspended for three years, on each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n             Funded by the Court Reporting Scheme.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A LOCAL woman with 115 previous convictions and who is currently serving a prison sentence was given two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-239132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239132","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=239132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}