Businessmen to be sentenced next month

Two businessmen who defrauded Ulster Bank of over £1m (€1.27m) to keep their business afloat are due to be sentenced on June 14 next by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Niall Clarkin, the managing director of the Label Centre Ltd, and Gerard Roche, it's general secretary and financial controller, lodged fictitious invoices with Ulster Bank in the hope that their company would get out of financial difficulty and they could repay the money.