Kathleen McDonagh gets suspended sentence for money laundering

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Kathleen McDonagh received a fully suspended three-year prison sentence for three money laundering counts at Dublin Circuit Criminal, with Judge Melanie Greally imposing conditions that she keep the peace and be of good behaviour. The proceedings were reported on 12 December 2022.

McDonagh pleaded guilty to the three counts, involving conduct between March 2019 and January 2020; two further money laundering charges were taken into account.

The court heard that deposits totalling €98,828.88 had been lodged between March 2018 and December 2019. Garda Gary Farrell accepted that McDonagh was not the target of the wider investigation and did not commit the primary offences. Defence counsel Garnet Orange SC said she had been effectively a channel, while Judge Greally said she was a direct beneficiary because she used the designer goods and car.