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A TEENAGER HAD to jump out of a moving car onto a busy road when the vehicle was stolen from a garage forecourt while she was in the back seat.
Sean Dowdall, 22, stole the car from a petrol station on the quays in Dublin city centre after he saw the driver, Susan Maguire, go into the shop to pay for fuel. After he got in he turned around and saw her daughter Ciara Maguire, 18, in the back seat before he drove off.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard Dowdall was on a “binge” at the time because he had found out the child his girlfriend was expecting might not be his. He was disqualified from driving at the time.
Judge Martin Nolan imposed a two-and-a-half year sentence for car theft and false imprisonment. He said Dowdall could have exited the car as soon as he realised someone was in the back but he didn’t.
The judge warned Dowdall, who has 55 previous convictions, that he was going to spend more time in prison if he kept offending.
“I’m looking at him, he has signs of intelligence, he knows what he has to do. If he continues offending, the sentences will only get longer,” Judge Nolan said.
Dowdall of Rutland Grove, Dublin 12 pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and car theft at Esso on Ushers Quay on February 11, 2016.
Garda John Alton told Seamus Clarke BL, prosecuting, that the Maguires were returning home from visiting friends when they stopped to get petrol. When the mother went in to pay Dowdall got into the driver’s seat.
Ciara Maguire asked him what he was doing before trying to signal to other people for help as Dowdall drove off.
She struggled to get her seatbelt off and open the door. When she fell onto the road a taxi had to swerve to avoid hitting her. Dowdall sped off and the car was recovered a short time later. He had taken it to Ballyfermot to sell it to repay a debt, he later told gardaí.
He was arrested when he went to a garda station to turn himself in for a separate offence. Gardaí recognised his clothes in the CCTV footage from the petrol station.
Dowdall admitted taking the car but said he didn’t know the girl was in the back seat. He said he was driving slowly when she jumped out.
Ciara Maguire had just finished her mock Leaving Certificate at the time. She suffered cuts and bruises and still wakes up from nightmares about the incident according to a victim impact report.
Defence counsel Oisin Clarke BL said his client had addictions to drink, drugs and gambling and had a tendency to go on “binges.”
He said the incident lasted no more than a few seconds and that Dowdall would have jumped from the car if the girl hadn’t done so first.
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My battery wouldn’t last long enough for me to do that…
Laughable how difficult it is to do on an iPhone. Sure just getting music on it in the first place is a trial in itself with all the iTunes and syncing shite. Android is just drag and drop
If you’ve a Mac, you can just edit the song in GarageBand, and import as ringtone to iTunes, sync with iPhone, and you’re done.
Since when is this a thing? I’ve had various phones over the past 15 years, always had a custom ringtone and never had a problem setting it (actually, I tell a lie, I had one for an afternoon that I returned when I discovered it couldn’t do it easily).
Certainly, the article seems to be making things more complicated than they need to be for Androids. On my current phone, you don’t need to download any apps or anything like that. Just two steps:
(i) Save your desired MP3 (any length you like) to the “Sounds” folder on the phone.
(ii) Go — Settings>Sounds>Set Ringtone>Add and pick your MP3,
Simples.
You can even, just as easily, set your clock alarm to whatever MP3 you want. And you ‘notification’ tone (for emails, facebook updates etc) The only thing that’s tricky is setting things like the startup sound and camera shutter sound, but that those can be done with downloaded apps and a few steps.
or get the free ringtones app that lets you create them on your iphone from your music library, email them to yourself, open on your PC with itunes, sync iphone to PC, hey presto ring tone is on your iphone
I was about to say that
The windows phone is crap, my mother in law got a free one (no wonder they were giving them away) and I was tasked with setting it up, an afternoon spent battling the phone, its too complicated I use Linux on the laptop and spend all day using drive and gmai on both the desktop ann the phone for work and give me android any day its intuitive and logical,
Ah but how do I apply different ringtones to different contacts on iPhone?
That’s easy you just do that when you are editing a particular persons contact details.
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