{"id":614614,"date":"2026-09-28T19:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/614614\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T19:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:50:21","slug":"cork-man-pleads-guilty-to-210-charges-of-fraudulent-claiming-of-invalidity-pension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/614614\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork man pleads guilty to 210 charges of fraudulent claiming of invalidity pension\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">More than 200 charges of theft by the fraudulent claiming of invalidity pension for more than four years were admitted today by a 55-year-old Cork man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda Raphael Liston charged Nicholas Mulcahy of 17 Glencree Crescent, Mayfield, Cork, with a total of 210 charges brought under the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The accused appeared before Cork District Court where his solicitor Shane Collins-Daly said that a book of evidence would not be required and that the defendant would enter signed pleas of guilty today to all charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Most of the charges refer to a weekly amount varying from \u20ac347 to \u20ac386, and a smaller number of charges refer to the payment in fortnightly form.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The period of offending was from May 2019 to October 2023 and the total loss to the Department of Social Protection exceeded \u20ac86,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On the application of Sergeant John Dineen, Judge David Waters sent the case forward for sentencing at Cork Circuit Criminal Court commencing on October 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The facts of the case that gave rise to the large number of charges will be given at the sentencing hearing in the circuit court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 200 charges of theft by the fraudulent claiming of invalidity pension for more than four years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,302842,35485,10632,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":["post-614614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-cork-court","tag-cork-news","tag-courts","tag-finance","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}