No jail for man who stole €49,000 from employer on Christmas Eve

A former apprentice butcher, who stole more than €49,000 from his employer during a “drug-induced paranoia” on Christmas Eve has avoided jail.

James Cahill (aged 22) of Ferrycarrig Park, Coolock in Dublin, was approached twice by a security guard at Finglas’s Charlestown Shopping Centre in Dublin last December when he was spotted pushing a wheelie bin in and out of McArdle’s butchers.