Public health nurse denies stealing €11,000 from elderly patient in county Cork

A public health nurse is on trial charged with theft of more than €11,000 from a patient in her 80s via 59 bank card transactions at shops and ATM machines.

Deirdre Kenneally, 47, of Leitrim, Kilworth, County Cork, pleaded not guilty to all 59 theft charges and three other related charges and she went on trial before Judge Gerard O’Brien and five women and seven men of the jury at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.