Niall Donald

Obviously, you know, getting a payment by fraudulent means.

And even when she received that sentence, the judge noted that one of the mitigating factors were her personal circumstances, in particular the death of her husband who died in tragic circumstances.

So she also ran into trouble on, I think actually on a story you wrote about where she had a kind of

Would you call it a caravan park or an unofficial caravan park, I suppose, at the back of one of the properties where she was renting out mobile homes, I think.

Yeah, Christy O'Connor.

Christy O'Connor.

Yeah.

And was renting them out.

Yeah.

And so last year, at the start of last year, she was ordered to demolish them.

And she was warned that if she didn't demolish them, she will be jailed.

So I think they have been subsequently demolished.

But she had been in breach of a court order at one point because that had obviously gone through the court system as well.

So she's come before the courts in a kind of constant way with various things.

Yeah, she has spent time in the UK.

She has sons over there.

Certainly, she has also come before the courts on...

She was convicted of two charges of failing to make tax returns and one count of money laundering in relation to a car which was seized by Gardaí, which is found to be the proceeds of crime.

Again, she was sentenced, but I think she only served 10 days in prison because constantly, I mean, if you're a woman, you know, these days and you're convicted of those sort of offences and you're given those sort of short sentences,

I mean, most people are serving days before they're out of prison.