Shop assistant stole over €19k worth of Lotto tickets

A shop assistant who became addicted to playing the Lotto and stole at least €19,000 worth of tickets from the small shop in Cwhere she worked has been given a suspended sentence.

It was impossible to quantify exactly how much Tara Egan had stolen from Doyle’s Topshop Petrol Station on Muckross Rd in the period 2011 to 2014, Tralee Circuit Criminal Court was told yesterday.

She may only have won €800 for her trouble.