Fahy to appeal one-year jail term for fraud

DISGRACED Galway county councillor Michael ‘Stroke’ Fahy is to appeal his conviction for fraud.

Fahy received a one-year jail sentence and was fined €75,000 for the misappropriation of public money on Tuesday.

Fahy was convicted on seven counts of fraud, attempted theft, deception and false accounting following an inquiry into the erection of council funded fencing on his farm in 2002/03.