McMahon (27) of Greenwood Walk, Blunden Drive, Dublin 13, was arrested by appointment. When interviewed, he accepted that they were his accounts. He agreed that the money was not his, but he said that he had spent it.

A decision by students to blockade a key tourist attraction on the campus was cited as a reason for the fine.

The court heard Lukasz Bykowski first met the woman when she was working as a shop assistant in Boots pharmacy in Navan in 2014.