'It would be well lit up' - Cork pub given a year to pay €80k bill from tampered electricity meter

ESB Networks said the interference with the meter "would have been carried out by a skilled person"

The pub had 357,000 units of free electricity equivalent to €80,000.

€80,000 of free electricity was used by a pub in Cork city and as it was being clarified in court precisely where the pub is located the sentencing judge remarked: “It would be well lit up.” 

The case against Waxy O’Connor’s of Marlboro Street, Cork, was being heard at Cork Circuit Criminal Court when there was some discussion between the parties about where exactly on the street the pub was located.