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AN ADDICTION to heroin was at the root of a break-in to a hotel room in Ennis, a court has heard.
Mark Mulcaire (32), of Luifford Lodge, Ennis, admitted entering a room at the Old Ground Hotel in Ennis as a trespasser and stealing goods, on June 16 last.
Ennis District Court heard last week
that a room was entered through a ground floor window, which was left open by a guest.
A laptop and other items, whose to- tal value amounted to €1,350, were taken. The accused and another in- dividual were identified on CCTV ort oe- ke
Defending solicitor Daragh Hassett told the court that the accused hails from a respectable family in Ennis.
He said that he developed a “very nasty habit; addiction to heroin” and got sucked in.
“This was a simple but a nasty crime. It was perpetrated with the intention of taking the laptop and Sswopping it for heroin,” he said.
He said his client is now drug- free and is committed to staying off ora breae
He said that when an individual is
addicted to heroin, ““You can’t work; you can’t live and everything else you do is focused on a need and greed for WeComebue tone
‘He broke into a hotel room in his own home town and was caught red- handed,” he said.
An eight-month jail term was im- posed and a bond was fixed in the event of an appeal.