'Everything went horribly wrong' when employee reported former solicitor, court hears

The theft and fraud trial of Thomas Byrne has heard of the day “everything went horribly wrong” for the former solicitor when one of his employees reported him to the authorities.

Barbara Cooney was an assistant solicitor in Mr Byrne’s Walkinstown firm when she allegedly discovered that he had forged her signature on a document related to a €4.5m loan from Irish Nationwide Building Society.