Accountants & Solicitors In Hot Water Thread

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A solicitor has been charged with theft and perverting the course of justice almost four years ago.

Cahir O’Higgins, whose office is at Parkgate Street in Dublin, is accused of stealing €400 from a defendant in July 2016 and of subsequently producing documents to gardaí purporting to be notes made at the time.

Mr O’Higgins was not present at Dublin District Court for today’s short hearing, but the court heard that he told gardaí he was not guilty.

Detective Garda Colm Kelly gave evidence of arrest, charge and caution.

He told the court that he arrested Mr O’Higgins at 2.28pm at the Bridewell Garda Station on 7 April where he was charged with five offences.

The offences are alleged to have occurred on 30 July 2016 and on 8 and 17 December 2017.

The court was told that the Director of Public Prosecutions had directed trial on indictment, which means the case is to be sent forward to the higher Circuit Criminal Court.

Defence barrister Karl Monaghan said he was required to put on record there was an issue with prosecutorial delay.

Judge Colin Daly remanded Mr O’Higgins in his absence to appear again at Dublin District Court next month.

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That seems like a very odd one.

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Are you sure theres not another two zeros missing there?

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wouldnt have thought that hed have many clients with 400 in cash on them. did a good bit of asylum IIRC

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The bar council will likely come down hard if it’s 400k missing off an orphaned child or somesuch and suggest he needs three months of supervision by his wife or daughter before he’s allowed to practice on his own again.
They take a very dim view of this sort of thing.

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the bar council has no jurisdiction regarding solicitors. the authority who will take a view dim or otherwise will be the SDT

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Is he of the O Higgins illuminati lineage?

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Just looking it up there. Cahir O’Higgins was the top criminal legal aid earning solicitor in the country in 2016 (€464,865), 2017 (486,997), dipped to 5th in 2018, but still pulled in £480.118.57. He’s not in the top 10 in 2019.

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Yes. He’s a son of a Michael O’Higgins and Brigid Hogan-O’Higgins - first husband and wife team to sit in the same Dail. He’d be a grand nephew of Kevin O’Higgins.

Half the judiciary will probably have to recuse themselves from presiding over this case as they’d be some way related to him.

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Two former solicitors - one of whom stood as a Fine Gael local election candidate - have been charged with conspiring to defraud several financial institutions.

Keith Flynn, 46, with an address at Blarney St in Cork city, and Lyndsey Clarke, 37, of the same address, appeared before Cork District Court on Wednesday morning where they faced a single charge each - that they conspired with each other between dates in 2016 and in 2018 to defraud a number of named banks and financial institutions.

Judge Olann Kelleher remanded both accused on bail for the service of the book of evidence on September 2.

Mr Flynn and Ms Clarke sat next to each other in court room one when their cases were called. The hearing lasted a matter of minutes.

Ms Clarke faces a single charge - that between January 1, 2016 and June 26, 2018, and both dates inclusive, within the state, she did conspire with one Keith Flynn to defraud AIB, Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and other financial institutions by creating false identities to be used for the purpose of obtaining credit dishonestly from the said institutions for the purpose of, and with the effect of, causing financial loss to those said institutions.

Mr Flynn faces a similar charge - that he did conspire with one Lyndsey Clarke between the same dates to defraud AIB, Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and other financial institutions by creating false identities to be used for the purpose of obtaining credit dishonestly from the said institutions for the purpose and with the effect of causing financial loss to those said institutions.

Garda Sergeant Gearoid Davis told Judge Kelleher that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has directed that the matters be sent forward for trial on indictment at Cork Circuit Criminal Court or, if the defendants so choose, that the matters be dealt with on a signed plea of guilty.

Solicitor Graham Hyde, who is representing both accused, told the court that Ms Clarke was on a back to work scheme earning €217 a week and was a mother of two children.

He applied for and was granted free legal aid for his client.

He told the court that Mr Flynn was working as a chef, earning around €500 a week, and was fully supporting four children.

He also applied for, and was also granted free legal aid for Mr Flynn.

Mr Flynn, who was admitted to the roll of solicitors in 2006, ran a legal practice in Dublin until it closed in 2016.

Ms Clarke was admitted to the roll in December 2012 and stood for Fine Gael in the Cork North-Central ward in the 2014 local elections.

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Are they an item?

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Hard to know. Same adress. He has 4 kids and she has two…

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The shady bunch

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A Venn diagram would be helpful

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i fail to see how but here you go:

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Keith scrubbed up very well in his former job.

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Lyndsey was well got with party handlers.

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He might have invented two of them for the scam

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He has four childer she has two childer how many childer if any do they each have a share in. That’s why I brought it up.

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CBE Frank Cushnahan will have to answer questions regarding NAMA / Cerebrus activities.
We’ll that’s the hope at least. I’m coming to the conclusion (without much effort) that Frank will plead some ailment or memory defect to recuse himself from these grubby proceedings. Frank, I’d wager, is a narcissistic snollygoster. A cunt of epic proportions.

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Would this crowd be big players?