A HORSE and carriage driver caught with a wallet full of counterfeit "movie prop money" has been spared a criminal record.
Ross Hyland (26), who had €380 worth of fake cash on him when he was searched by gardai, said he found it in his carriage when he bought it and held onto the notes for "some reason."
Judge Bryan Smyth applied the Probation Act, leaving him without a conviction when he paid the same amount to charity.
Hyland, a father-of-one of Blackhorse Grove, Dublin 7 pleaded guilty to possession of counterfeit €5 notes at Donard estate in Cabra on December 11, 2019.
Hyland had pleaded guilty earlier and when the case came back before Judge Smyth, a defence lawyer said the money had been paid to Fr Peter McVerry's Trust.