Signed pleas of guilty were entered by a man accused of producing a large kitchen knife to a Dunnes Stores staff member during a robbery and his case was sent forward for sentencing at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.<\/p>\n
Frank Buttimer, solicitor, confirmed at Cork District Court that Donal Burleigh, aged 39, was pleading guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n
Judge David Waters then sent the case forward for sentencing at Cork Circuit Criminal Court, on the application of Sergeant John Dineen. Donal Burleigh was remanded in continuing custody.<\/p>\n
Garda Thomas Enright gave evidence in the objection to bail being granted to the accused previously and said that when arrested and interviewed he told garda\u00ed of other crimes he planned to carry out on the day of this attempted robbery at Merchant\u2019s Quay.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe made full admissions to threatening the member of staff and he told me it is in his head a long time \u2014 that he wants to harm shop assistants and that after he left he was going to get on the 202 bus and go to Mahon Point to rob Curry\u2019s and Tesco.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was caught red-handed. CCTV shows him committing the act. And he said he fully intends to commit robberies and cause harm to people working in shops.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe garda\u00ed have a strong belief that if given bail, there is a serious danger to members of the public, in particular shop workers,\u201d Garda Enright said.<\/p>\n
The alleged incident at Dunnes at Merchant\u2019s Quay occurred at lunchtime on Tuesday, May 5, and Donal Burleigh, with an address at Coppinger\u2019s Acre, Bantry Park Road, Fair Hill, was arrested on that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Signed pleas of guilty were entered by a man accused of producing a large kitchen knife to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,79,54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-672198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-court","tag-cork-news","tag-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672198","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=672198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}