IT worker conned his friends out of €8k

An IT worker conned his colleagues and tag-rugby teammates out of nearly €8,000 by telling them he could get them tickets to a Conor McGregor fight.

David Marsh, aged 29, who also conned a Limerick couple out of €76,000, has been remanded on bail pending sentence next week.

He knew the couple as he was in a relationship with the woman’s sister. He told them he had bought a house at “a knock-down price” in a development in Castletroy and promised them he could secure them the same deal.