{"id":484879,"date":"2026-05-14T20:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/484879\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T20:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:24:10","slug":"mother-of-three-jailed-for-brown-thomas-designer-jacket-theft-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/484879\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother of three jailed for Brown Thomas designer jacket theft \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 39-year-old mother of three has been jailed for a year for stealing six designer jackets worth more than \u20ac12,500 from Brown Thomas<\/a> in the run-up to Christmas 2024.<\/p>\n

Her daughter was given a suspended sentence for the offence, which also involved three other people.<\/p>\n

Cathriona <\/b>Joyce and Caitlin Joyce (21) of St Brigid\u2019s Lawn, Porterstown in Dublin were before Dublin Circuit Criminal Court<\/a> on Thursday, where they pleaded guilty to stealing the jackets worth \u20ac12,615 from the department store on December 14th, 2024.<\/p>\n

Garda Shane Quinn told the court the two women were seen on CCTV acting suspiciously on the same day the jackets went missing.<\/p>\n

He said three females and two males entered, loitered, and were surveilled. The females put the designer jackets under their own jackets and walked out of the door, while the males carried the other jackets out under their arms.<\/p>\n

Searches were carried out of the Joyce women\u2019s homes at St Brigid\u2019s Lawn, and three of the jackets were found. Quinn said one was found under a Christmas tree in the livingroom of Cathriona <\/b>Joyce\u2019s caravan, while two were found in the bedroom of her daughter\u2019s caravan, which was in the same bay.<\/p>\n

He said that, four days later, Cathriona <\/b>Joyce handed \u201ca black plastic bag containing three more Moncler jackets\u201d in to garda\u00ed. They were returned in good condition, with the Brown Thomas labels and security tags still attached, and could be sold.<\/p>\n

Quinn agreed with the younger woman\u2019s barrister that if these had been Penneys jackets, the case would have been heard in the District Court. He also agreed that Caitlin Joyce had no previous convictions and had engaged with Blanchardstown Traveller Development Group and in healthcare work, which would require Garda vetting in the future.<\/p>\n

Counsel said Caitlin Joyce had had difficulties at home, and had been caring for her grandmother who had suffered a stroke.<\/p>\n

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Cathriona <\/b>Joyce\u2019s barrister said his client had problems with her heart and back, and had undergone surgery and a biopsy last week.<\/p>\n

She also suffered from anxiety and depression, and had lost her mother 11 months ago. She now cared for her father, who suffered from dementia.<\/p>\n

Judge Martin Nolan noted she had previously received the benefit of suspended sentences from various courts for similar convictions in the past. He jailed her for one year.<\/p>\n

Nolan noted that her daughter had no previous convictions and was trying to improve herself. He sentenced her to one year in prison, suspended on condition she work with the Probation Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 39-year-old mother of three has been jailed for a year for stealing six designer jackets worth more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,58082,73168,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-484879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-brown-thomas","11":"tag-criminal-courts","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116574805864714278","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}