A Cork horse dealer was yesterday jailed for four years after he pleaded guilty at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to six counts of failing to make income tax returns over a six-year period.
Jeremiah O'Driscoll (57), with addresses at the Cottage, Farmer's Cross, Cork, and Ardcullen, Hollyhill, Cork, admitted failing to make income tax returns between April 1992 and 1998.
O'Driscoll's conviction by Judge A.G. Murphy follows an investigation by the Criminal Assets Bureau which assessed him as owing £232,000 in tax. He had recently paid £100,000 in respect of the amount due.
Sgt Denis O'Leary, of the CAB, said that O'Driscoll had a total of 34 previous convictions from 1959 to 1992. These included one for robbery with violence for which he was sentenced to four years in jail by the Central Criminal Court in 1969.