School principal who stole €200,000 jailed as original sentence too lenient

A former principal who stole €204,000 from his school for golf equipment and weekends away has been jailed after his original suspended sentence was deemed too lenient.The shamed former headmaster, who originally faced 23 counts on the indictment, was given a wholly suspended two year sentence on condition he repay €25,000 by Judge John Aylmer at Cavan Circuit Criminal Court on March 15, 2018.

He was then sentenced to 15 months and immediately taken into custody. President of the Court of Appeal, Mr Justice George Birmingham, said Kilnaleck was a small school with five teachers and approximately 70 pupils. Cheques were improperly drawn on school accounts amounting to €29,000 and €32,000. Another €2,850 was misapplied from the school’s post office account.

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