Criminals who burgled elderly couple’s home during Mass lose their appeals Reporter: '); '); TWO burglars, whose crime was likened to coronavirus, have lost their appeals against sentence for targeting the home of a couple in their late 80s, while they were out attending Mass. Armed gardai had caught the criminals red-handed in the house after an intelligence-led investigation, which resulted in both receiving seven-year sentences. Niall Fitzpatrick, 53, of Corrin Close, The Glen, Cork City and Jerry O’Leary, 62, of Brandon Crescent, Dillons Cross, also in the city, had pleaded guilty at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to the burglary at Kilberehert, Freemount, Charleville on October 19, last year.