Paul O’Brien jailed for clairvoyant robbery in Dublin

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Paul O’Brien was jailed for robbery at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 28 November 2018, receiving four years with 12 months suspended.

The robbery happened at Dympna’s Clairvoyant on Cromwellsfort Road, Walkinstown, on 6 January 2015.

O’Brien and Niall Sheil took cash, purses and phones after entering the premises, where Sheil carried a steel bar. O’Brien’s case had been adjourned several times to allow addiction treatment, but Judge Melanie Greally said he had relapsed and the court had exhausted alternatives to custody. Sheil had previously received a four-year suspended sentence.