{"id":481715,"date":"2026-06-03T23:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/481715\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T23:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:34:09","slug":"woman-fined-for-cosmetics-theft-from-letterkenny-pharmacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/481715\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman fined for cosmetics theft from Letterkenny pharmacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman who stole cosmetics from a Letterkenny pharmacy has been fined in court.<\/p>\n

Shauna Brady was brought before Letterkenny District Court on foot of a bench warrant.<\/p>\n

The 42-year-old, with an address at Abbey Villas in Manorcunningham but now living in. Northern Ireland, had been charged with a theft at Magee\u2019s Pharmacy, Main Street, Letterkenny.<\/p>\n

Detective Garda Donal Callaghan gave evidence of arresting Brady on foot of the bench warrant. She made no reply when cautioned, Detective Garda Callaghan told the court.<\/p>\n

Brady tendered a guilty plea to the incident.<\/p>\n

Sergeant Jim Collins said that at 3.36pm on the July 20, 2022 Gardai were called to the scene at Magee\u2019s. When they viewed CCTV, officers identified Brady as a person entering the store and stealing cosmetics worth \u20ac240.<\/p>\n

The court heard that Brady passed all points, but later made full admissions. The items stolen were resalable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Solicitor for Brady, Ms Ceejay Byrne, said that her client approached Gardai to have the warrant executed. Ms Byrne said Brady had a difficult recent history, has been at a \u201clow ebb\u201d and in addiction.<\/p>\n

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Ms Byrne said that Brady is now sober and clean and is \u201crecovering well\u201d. She added that Byrne is residing in Northern Ireland and is receiving treatment.<\/p>\n

Judge Emile Daly convicted Brady and fined her \u20ac150. Brady was given six months to pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who stole cosmetics from a Letterkenny pharmacy has been fined in court. Shauna Brady was brought…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-481715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481715","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=481715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}