Niall Donald

He spent the money on two things, which is male escorts and drugs, including liquid ecstasy, crystal meth and cocaine.

So, I mean, it's a big sum.

I mean, he was convicted and pled guilty for the theft of 172,000 from the Navan Mental Health Housing Association within, that's over a year period.

I mean, that is a lot of money.

I mean, that is a lot of drugs and a lot of escorts, if you want to look at it that way.

Yeah.

And look, some of these local organizations, they're not going to have the sort of the massive oversight that you would get in a huge organization.

So a lot of it sort of depends on there be a double check where somebody would have to sign a check.

Some of these people seem to have been

elderly, ill, and McKiernan would sort of arrive at their home and ask them to sign a cheque, keeping them sort of basically one step away from it.

But obviously the money was not being spent as it was intended, to say the least.

Yeah, because I think obviously when you're talking about a housing charity, individuals would get a cheque.

So if you came to the charity and you were in a position of hardship.

Yeah, so I might, you know, you might get a cheque of a thousand euros and your name would be on it.

So that's where the fraud arose, was not that, you know, he was putting that money into his account, but that he was paying...

And it describes them as mostly South American men, this money, but that, you know, it wasn't for housing, let's put it that way.

He's been held in one of the wings that would house people that might be vulnerable in the general population.

For example, you know, maybe some of the sex offenders or some of the people that sort of middle class wife killing types.

But yeah, it's a dramatic fall from grace.

I mean, we actually had an interview with one of the escorts