Two years for €116k theft from charity

A former director of a Hepatitis C support group who stole more than €116,000 from the organisation will begin a two-year prison sentence next month.

Bernadette Warnock, aged 63, stole the money while operating the finances of Positive Action Ltd which was set up in 1994 to help women who contracted hepatitis C through contaminated blood product in maternity hospitals.

Positive Action had 730 members and received the majority of its funding from the HSE. It was closed down in 2014 following a HSE audit.