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Sentence adjourned for Galway hurler who stole €60,000 from former employer
Galway Bay fm newsroom – A Galway senior hurler who faced 23 charges of theft from a former employer, has had his sentencing adjourned.
26 year old Davy Glennon from Loughrea appeared before Galway Circuit Criminal Court today.
However, Judge Rory McCabe said in the absence of a probation report, sentencing should be adjourned.
Mr. Glennon is to be sentenced for 23 charges involving the theft of various amounts of cash, totalling over 60 thousand euro from J&C Kenny Wine Distributors between December 1st, 2012 and July 8th, 2015.
In May last year, he entered a guilty plea to a set of sample charges, and was remanded on bail.
The issue was first reported to Gardaí by the company in September 2015 after a colleague who Davy Glennon was covering for noticed that various sums of money were unaccounted for.
Davy Glennon subsequently admitted to the thefts, and soon after, he began a 12 week residential gambling addiction programme at Cluain Mhuire in Turloughmore.
In court this afternoon, a Victim Impact Statement was read out by Aoife Kenny on behalf of J&C Kenny Wine Distributors.
It stated that the thefts almost caused the company, which employs 32 people, to close down, and that his betrayal of trust had a serious impact on the Kenny family.
Davy Glennon apologised to the Kennys ahead of today’s proceedings.
Former Armagh GAA footballer Oisin McConville, a former gambling addict, spoke about Davy Glennon’s treatment and ongoing aftercare.
He told the court that Davy Glennon is working hard to break the stigma surrounding gambling addiction, and that this week, he addressed thousands of TY students at an event at the 3Arena in Dublin.
Judge Rory McCabe said that there are a number of mitigating factors in the case, which are likely to have an impact on the sentence imposed.
These include Davy Glennon’s remorse and the fact that his former employer has been repaid 65,000 euro, and that Mr Glennon has no relevant previous convictions.
He also pointed out that Glennon’s work in raising awareness of gambling addiction points to a personal committment to tackling his own issues.
However, Judge McCabe said he could not impose a sentence in the absence of a probation report – which outlines among other things a person’s risk of reoffending.
The sentencing has been adjourned until May 10th.
The death has occurred of the former Bishop of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora Martin Drennan, six years after he announced his retirement on health grounds. He was aged 78.
The Galway Diocesan Office confirmed the death this (Saturday) afternoon of the Bishop and Apostolic Administrator Emeritus, who oversaw the Diocese for eleven years.
Born on January 2, 1944 in Piltown, County Kilkenny, he studied for the priesthood at Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth, from where he was ordained to the priesthood in 1968. His brother Michael is also a priest.
Following his ordination, he continued his studies in Rome where he was awarded a Licentiate in both sacred theology and sacred scripture. He returned to Rome in 1980 to become spiritual director at the Pontifical Irish College for the next five years.
He became a lecturer in sacred scripture at Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth, where he continued to teach until his appointment as Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin in 1997 with responsibility for East Wicklow and South Dublin.
Following the retirement of Bishop James McLoughlin, Bishop Drennan was appointed Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh and Apostolic Administrator of Kilfenora and he was installed on July 3, 2005 in Galway Cathedral.
Outgoing Cllr Terry O’Flaherty (Ind) is on course to retain her City Council seat – and top the poll in City East.
With 33% of the boxes tallied, Cllr O’Flaherty is polling strongly, particularly in Renmore.
Michael John Crowe is ahead of his running mate Alan Cheevers for the Fianna Fáil vote, according to the early figures, although that could change when Doughiska and Roscam boxes are opened.
The Green Party’s Claire Hillery is on about 7%, with Fine Gael on 10% and Sinn Fein on 5%.
The opening of boxes for the local elections began at 9am this morning in Leisureland when the tallymen (and women) kicked into gear.
As regards the Galway County Council elections, the smaller areas are being opened first which means that the four-seater Connemara North boxes will be first in the pecking order.
It will be followed by Gort-Kinvara (5 seats), Connemara South (5 seats), Athenry-Oranmore (7 seats), Ballinasloe (6 seats), Loughrea (5 seats) and finally Tuam (7 seats).
The boxes in these areas will be opened and tallied in that particular order before being transferred to the Galway Lawn Tennis Club on Threadneedle Road where the counting will commence around mid-morning.
That is when the fun will really begin – although the tallies should give a good indication as to where most of the seats are destined.
As regards the city, the Galway City East boxes were opened first, followed by Galway City Central and finally Galway City West. These votes will be transferred to the Westside Centre by around 11am for counting.
There are 39 seats on Galway County Council to be filled with 18 on Galway City Council. The City Council count is expected to conclude on Saturday night but the County Council count – with seven electoral areas to be filled – could well go into Monday.
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