Garda admits to €600 ATM scam

A Dublin-based garda has admitted defrauding AIB out of €600 in an ATM scam.

Garda Raymond Geelan, aged 38, from Hayworth, the Ongar, Dublin 15, is awaiting sentence after yesterday pleading guilty to four counts of deception and one charge of attempted deception in connection with a series of ATM withdrawals.

The offences occurred at AIB cash machines in Maynooth, Co Kildare, and in Blanchardstown, Dublin, on five dates from March 30 to May 1, 2013.