2024-03-05
Businessman who had 'cosy relationship' with garda under investigation avoids jail for receiving Pulse data
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Judge Nolan said in "certain circumstances" this type of crime would have had "serious consequences" but "this is not the situation here". "He doesn't deserve a prison term for what he did," the judge commented, before he sentenced Sheehy to one year in prison which he suspended in full on strict conditions.