Ripped from the Headlines
A quick one from the 2008 unposted archive.
Oh local newspapers, how do I love thee.
This article appeared in the Blanch Gazette and I quote from it liberally as no comment is necessary.
Suspended sentences for identical twins
Drug-addicted identical twin brothers who hid their faces with tea towels when they robbed €42 worth of Easter eggs on April Fool’s Day last year, have been given suspended sentences.
Mark and Ciaran Cummin carried a bucket and a screwdriver and claimed they had a gun when they demanded money, but only got away with the Easter eggs and chocolate. Staff at Brady’s Service station, Navan road, secured themselves in a back office and watched the raid on CCTV by what Gardai described as “an unlikely pair of criminals”
But their criminal enterprises do not end there:
In addition to pleading guilty to “criminal damage of a hatch window at the Shell Garage in Mulhuddart, earlier that same day, Ciaran admitted he was the getaway driver on April 7 2006, in which staff at Hickey’s Pharmacy in Tyrrellstown, Dublin 15 reported that “a little fat man shouted repeatedly while his trousers kept kept falling down” before making off with €1,000 cash and an assortment of drugs.