Dispute between tea dance couple over missing €40k

A couple, who met at a tea dance in Jurys Hotel almost 30 years ago, are now embroiled in a legal dispute over a missing €40,000 from a joint post office account they shared, a court has heard.

Judge Jacaqueline Linnane yesterday ordered 88-year-old Mary Cunningham to outline in an affidavit to the Circuit Civil Court “full and specific details” of withdrawals she made from the account she shared with John Condron.

Judge Linnane said Ms Cunningham, of Brookwood Rise, Artane, Dublin, and Mr Condron, of Cormac St, Tullamore, Co Offaly, “were unrelated and strangers in blood”. They had met at an afternoon tea dance in Jurys Hotel and, the court had been told, the couple had been involved in “a very long-term relationship”.