A MAN who failed to make use of the chances given to him previously has been jailed for four years by Judge Michael Moriarty for a £90 shop robbery.
Perry Daly had been allowed go to the Coolmine Therapeutic Centre by the prison authorities, but left the centre after a shorts time and committed another offence.
He also had part of a 1988 five, or six year sentence suspended but went back to crime on that occasion also, Judge Moriarty noted at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
"The risk to the public if he is allowed again to remain free for drug treatment is too great to take," he added.
Daly (33), from Downpatrick Road, Dublin, pleaded guilty for his part in stealing £90 from a shop on Sundrive Road on October 16th, 1994.
Judge Moriarty suspended the final 15 months of the four year sentence on Daly's bond to cooperate with the probation service.
The court heard that Daly had been identified by one of the, shop's staff when he and an accomplice stole the money. He told gardai he needed the money for heroin.
Mr Anthony Sammon, defending, said the probation report indicated he now had some insight to his problem. If given an opportunity Daly believed he could get off the spiral of drug related trouble.