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Sat 01 Jan 2007Woman defrauded employer of €100,000A "shopaholic" who defrauded her employer of almost €100,000 has received a three-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court from Judge Katherine Delahunt.Lynn Byrne (24), from Killinarden Estate, Tallaght, who worked for BWG Foods on the Greenhills Road in Crumlin as a clerk in their central billing office, pleaded guilty to four charges of dishonesty and theft of cheques.