The many victims of Sonya Egan's lies

What do former UK Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn, former Sinn Féin TD Jonathan O'Brien, a senior garda, and a senior social worker have in common? All were woven into Sonya Egan's web of lies 

Sonya Egan (right) with her solicitor Eimear Griffin. Picture: Cork Courts

Sonya Egan didn’t just tell a lie here and there. 

Hers was not the feckless telling of an untruth to get out of a corner. Nor was it anything like the child idly tossing a pebble in the pond and watching the ripples flow. No. This was a woman who operated systematically, applying herself with fervour to the manufacturing of fictions about real people and spreading lies as far as she could with relentless energy. When she was up and at it, there was literally no stopping her.