Private school bursar stole half a million euro to fund gambling addiction

Mary Higgins had no previous convictions, and has since repaid €470,949.62

The defendant was the bursar at Mount Sackville Secondary School, Chapelizod, Dublin.

A private school bursar who stole half a million euro to fund a gambling addiction, has since sold her home and signed over her pension to pay back the institution around which her whole life revolved, a court has heard.

Mary Higgins, aged 62, with an address at Hawthorn Lawn, Castleknock, was before Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on Monday, where she pleaded guilty to stealing €500,000 from Mount Sackville Secondary School in Chapelizod between January 1, 2012, and March 23, 2017.