Suspended sentence for woman who stole thousands from elderly West Cork relative

The money was taken from an account in AIB Bank, Kinsale, between December  2014 and April 2017

The 91-year-old was having her teacher's pension from the UK paid into a Barclays Bank Account account there. File picture

A 57-year-old woman without previous convictions has received a four-month suspended sentence after she was convicted of stealing more than €6,000 from a 91-year-old retired teacher in West Cork.

Mary Ann O'Sullivan, who is a native of Horsehill, Kinsale, Co Cork, but now lives in San Pedro de Alcantara, Malaga, in Spain, pleaded guilty to 27 counts of stealing money from Catherine Beardsmore.