“It may well have been a moment of madness,” defence barrister Michael O’Higgins suggested to the court in an attempt to explain why one of the most successful criminal defence solicitors in the country, who has defended everyone from water charge protesters to a former judge, had stolen €400 from a client in the District Court in 2016. “A sense of entitlement”, counsel continued, that in figurative terms was like “pulling a thread” that “pulled and pulled and brought everything you can conceivably think of down to nothing”. O’Higgins had represented Spanish national Raul Sanz Quilis at a Saturday evening…

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