'Shopaholic' receives suspended sentence for fraud

A "shopaholic" who defrauded her employer of almost €100,000 has received a three-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today.

Lynn Byrne (aged 24), from Killinarden Estate, Tallaght, who worked for BWG Foods Ltd on the Greenhills Road in Crumlin as a clerk in their central billing office, pleaded guilty to four charges of dishonesty and theft of cheques.