'You couldn't make it up' — The relentless and prolonged harassment of a Cork TD and a businesswoman

People sometimes leave court cases shaking their heads saying, “You couldn’t make it up.” The harassment case against Sonya Egan in Cork is one such case.

File Picture: Cork Courts

The last thing the woman convicted of serial harassment in Cork saw before she was taken into custody was barristers in their gowns waiting for the next cases to be called.

The sight of all those lawyers in Courtroom 4 at the Criminal Courts of Justice on Anglesea Street might have reminded Sonya Egan of the day she began her deception of one of her harassment victims more than four years earlier.