Man gets six months to repay €8k to employer

A man has been given six months to repay over €8,000 he had stolen from his former employer.

John Kiely, aged 47, was a project manager at Dolphin House Community Development Association when he overpaid himself by transferring cash using online banking. He had been drinking heavily at the time and took the money to pay bills.

Kiely, of Fountain St, Ferrybank, Co Waterford, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to four counts of stealing sums of cash by electrical funds transfer at Dolphin House Community Centre on dates between Jan and Dec 2006. He has no previous convictions and is currently unemployed.