Listowel lawyer in High Court battle

Helen Lucey

Listowel solicitor Helen Lucey, who is also the coroner for north and west Kerry, transferred €259,000 from a client’s account to her own after striking a deal with “a dubious figure” called Finbarr Ross – a former financial adviser who now operates a religious tours company called Sacred Mystical Tours.

Lucey had appealed a finding of professional misconduct by the Law Society’s Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal, but the finding was upheld by the President ...