{"id":128189,"date":"2025-11-08T05:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T05:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/128189\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T05:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T05:49:08","slug":"judges-link-to-regulator-leads-to-adjournment-of-ex-councillors-charity-theft-case-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/128189\/","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":128190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15218,13553,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-128189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cavan","tag-circuit-court","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}