Clare retailer says staff now operate ‘under a cloud of fear’ after 3 armed robberies over 10-day period

A Co Clare retailer has told a court that she and her staff “now operate under a cloud of fear’” after three armed robberies on her businesses over the space of 10 days.

At Ennis Circuit Court, Flora Crowe said that the three armed robberies last October “have had a profound effect on my family, our staff and also the sense of safety within our community”.

Ms Crowe said that prior to the robberies last October, the family run business had been very fortunate never to experience a robbery, let alone an armed robbery over the past 40 years.

In the case, Judge Francis Comerford imposed a three year-one month prison term on Dylan Considine Kelly (23) of no-fixed abode for the robberies with the final nine months suspended resulting in a two year-four month jail term to serve.

Judge Comerford said that he could see how “terrifying it was for an Irish town to have this series of robberies with threats of violence in a short space of time”.

In her victim impact statement, Ms…

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