Cork postmistress spared jail for €25k fraud

'Robbing Peter to pay Paul' by writing cheques on one account and transferring money to pay those cheques, judge said.

Judge Sean Ó Donnabháin said that in all the circumstances a sentence of two years – fully suspended – was appropriate. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

A former postmistress was given a two-year suspended jail sentence for defrauding An Post of almost €25,000.

35-year-old Elizabeth Broderick of 22 Willow Drive, Cluain Ard, Cobh, Co Cork, was sentenced at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.