THE Good and the Bad

Patrick Browne swindled teenage school kids out of €200,000 when he pocketed cash meant as deposits for events he was organising. Today he got a whopping five years jail, see the report here on RTE. The Cork city events organiser blew the money on a gambling habit back in 2007. The up-side to the story at the time was that the corporates and local businesses rowed in as sponsors to secure the venues for all the various balls. So in the end Cinderella did go to the ball, but Browne never paid back any cash.