Let me out I’m a tradesman, jailed pub burglar pleads
Mon, Nov 10, 2025
A man detained in prison since his arrest for the burglary of an Athenry pub pleaded via video link from prison to Judge James Faughnan that he was a tradesman, and if the judge let him out he would work on building sites to pay back the loss to the pub.
“Judge Faughnan, I’m a tradesman and I’d like to work to pay back the pub in Athenry,” he told Ballinasloe District Court.
However, the judge was told by John Martin, solicitor (defending) that the problem was that his client, defendant Paul Druce (no fixed abode) had been granted bail at an earlier Court but he was unable to take up this bail because of lack of cash.
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