Apprentice stole almost €50k from employer on Christmas Eve

A former apprentice butcher who stole over €49,000 from his employer during a “drug-induced paranoia” in the early hours of Christmas Eve last year has had his sentence adjourned.

James Cahill (aged 22) was approached twice by a security guard at Finglas’ Charlestown Shopping Centre when he was spotted pushing a wheelie bin in and out of McArdle’s butchers around 5am.