{"id":169238,"date":"2025-11-08T05:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T05:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/169238\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T05:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T05:54:09","slug":"judges-link-to-regulator-leads-to-adjournment-of-ex-councillors-charity-theft-case-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/169238\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge\u2019s link to regulator leads to adjournment of ex-councillor\u2019s charity theft case \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A judge has postponed sentencing of a former Fine Gael county council cathaoirleach for theft after telling the court it would be inappropriate for him to continue dealing with the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The former Cavan councillor, Sean McKiernan, who is in his 40s, is charged with the theft of \u20ac172,000 from Navan Mental Health Housing Association Ltd in 2019 and 2020. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He has pleaded guilty two charges: the theft of \u20ac5,270 from the charity on September 26th, 2019, and theft of \u20ac800 from the organisation on April 6th, 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A sentencing hearing for McKiernan, of Trinity Bungalow, Virginia Road, Bailieborough, went on for about an hour on Friday before Judge John Martin retired to his chambers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">When he returned the judge said he was a member of a charitable services committee linked to the Charities Regulator. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He said he did not think it would be appropriate for him to continue to deal with the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The judge adjourned the case at Trim Circuit Court for discussions between prosecuting and defence lawyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A judge has postponed sentencing of a former Fine Gael county council cathaoirleach for theft after telling the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,42554,24443,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-169238","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-cavan","11":"tag-circuit-court","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115512532245021162","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169238","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=169238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}