It comes as since 2020, just one in 29 cars sold in Co Roscommon has been electric.

The university had invoiced its students’ union for €214,285 after a series of protests about fees and rent, as well as pro-Palestine events

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.