Counsel for Donna Magee asked that she be given a week before starting her sentence in order to make arrangements for her 14-year-old child. This was refused by Judge Martin Nolan, who said it was too serious an offence.

Magee, with an address in Holyfields, Dungannon, Co Tyrone, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to stealing in excess of 270,000 from her former employers.

She did so over the course of several months by making transfers into her own bank account.

The 47-year-old mother-of-one worked as a financial controller at OMara Geraghty McCourt Solicitors in Dublin between late 2007 and June 2009, before irregularities in the firms accounts were discovered.

In court today, Judge Nolan said: She was in a pos…

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