A 60-year-old Co Clare man yesterday pleaded guilty to the theft of more than €20,000 from Clare County Council in relation to the sale of burial plots, writes Gordon Deegan.
At Ennis Circuit Court, Seán Leamy of Main Street, Tulla, pleaded guilty to 49 counts concerning the theft of €20,022 from the council in connection with the sale of plots at Clonlea graveyard, Kilkishen, Co Clare, over 10 years.
Leamy was employed by Clare Co Council as registrar at Clonlea graveyard during the period in question, September 1999 to June 2009. Judge Carroll Moran remanded Leamy on continuing bail and adjourned sentencing to Ennis Circuit Court on March 26th.