A former school principal who thieved almost €100,000 from his former school’s accounts to feed a chronic gambling addiction, was given a fully suspended 20 month jail sentence today, Friday.
Father of three Stephen Condon, The Grange, Raheen, Limerick City, admitted stealing €93,000 from St John the Baptist National School, Garryowen, where he had been the school’s principal, in a “spectacular breach of trust”, the sentencing judge said.
The thefts were discovered in 2016 when the school board became suspicious that money was missing and a full audit of the school’s accounts was carried out.
