A man who defrauded his employer of €15,000 by falsifying accounts has been sentenced to two years in prison with one suspended by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Declan O’Rourke (34) of Wheatfield Grove, Clondalkin, had worked his way up to middle management in Noyeks Newmans and had worked there for 13 years when he started the fraud.
Det Garda Pat Curran agreed with Cathal McGreal, defending, that his client had “all the hallmarks of a very serious gambling addiction”.
O’Rourke continued the fraud after his crime was discovered, and he worked unpaid overtime in a bid to reimburse €5,500. He had paid back €2,600 when he started the scam again.
Judge Delahunt said that despite getting “a second chance”, O’Rourke reverted to his “old ways” under a “facade of remorse”.