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Eimear Dodd

One of four detainees who caused €120,000 in damage to Oberstown Children's Detention Centre given four-year sentence

A man who was one of four detainees who caused €120,000 in damage to the Oberstown Children's Detention Centre in 2016 has been handed a four-year sentence.

Philip McCabe, 23 and Luke Cronin, 22, both pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal damage at Oberstown Children's Detention Centre on September 20 and 21, 2016.

McCabe, of Cherry Orchard Court, Ballyfermot, Dublin 10 also pleaded guilty to one count of driving a car without permission on July 17, 2017 at Palmerstown Woods, Clondalkin and three counts of burglary from separate businesses in the Finglas area on April 30, 2019.

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