Fionnbarr Kennedy gets suspended sentence for child pornography

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Fionnbarr Kennedy received a two-and-a-half-year sentence, suspended in full, at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 5 June 2018 for possessing child pornography. The offence occurred at M Kennedy and Sons on Harcourt Street, Dublin, on 27 July 2010.

Kennedy had pleaded guilty after 466 images were retrieved from his laptop during a Garda investigation. Judge Martin Nolan recognised the considerable delay in the case and accepted that Kennedy had not distributed the images for profit or circulated them.