Top GAA coach swindled a friend out of more than €40,000 – ‘I’m annoyed at how naive and trusting I was’
Hurling coach Jimmy Meagher convinced his victim, who was working in Australia at the time, to invest in a non-existent sliotar business
Hurling coach Jimmy Meagher. Photo: Patrick Browne
Mark Tighe
An elite GAA coach in Kilkenny has been found guilty of fraudulently taking €41,000 from a close friend who he convinced to invest in a non-existent sliotar business.
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