{"id":136513,"date":"2025-10-21T17:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/136513\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:45:12","slug":"ex-bank-of-ireland-employee-who-stole-e200k-before-trying-to-set-branch-on-fire-should-have-been-jailed-state-argues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/136513\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Bank of Ireland employee who stole \u20ac200k before trying to set branch on fire should have been jailed, State argues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Maureen McCormack (53) maintained that she stole the money to pay for debts incurred for IVF treatment\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maureen McCormack\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/78f7282a-673e-4998-b65c-6362e5a50952.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Maureen McCormack<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A former Bank of Ireland employee who stole almost \u20ac200,000 from a midlands branch and its customers before attempting to set the building on fire showed a \u201ctotal disregard\u201d for public safety and should not have received a fully suspended sentence, the Director of Public Prosecutions has argued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Maureen McCormack (53) maintained that she stole the money to pay for debts incurred for IVF treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maureen McCormack (53) maintained that she stole the money to pay for debts incurred for IVF treatment Maureen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,23,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-136513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latest-news-ticker","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}