Ivor Callely withdraws appeal over false invoices sentence

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Ivor Callely withdrew his appeal against a five-month jail sentence for using false invoices at the Court of Appeal on 19 February 2016. He had pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to four counts involving invoices used at Leinster House, Kildare Street, between November 2007 and December 2009.

Callely was sentenced on 28 July 2014 by Judge Mary Ellen Ring after admitting he fraudulently claimed €4,207.45 in Oireachtas expenses. His lawyers confirmed the withdrawal during case management before Mr Justice George Birmingham; Callely was not present. The report also records that the High Court later quashed a refusal of enhanced remission, with his application subsequently reconsidered successfully.