Breifne O'Brien is an Irish convicted swindler and former socialite businessman. [1] A major figure in Ireland's Celtic Tiger economy, he has been called "Ireland's Bernie Madoff". His residences included a lavish family home in Glenageary, an apartment on Dalkey’s Vico Road and a golfing villa in Barbados.

Aug 3, 2014 · The fall of Breifne O'Brien has been cast as a colourful morality tale; a dashing financier, who moved in high society, drove an Aston Martin, attended charity balls with his socialite wife,...

May 13, 2018 · Fraudster businessman Breifne O’Brien has been released from prison. The former businessman was jailed for seven years in 2014 after he pleaded guilty to running a Ponzi scheme which cost his victims millions. He appealed the severity of the sentence in 2015 and lost.

Oct 8, 2014 · Fraudster businessman Breifne O’Brien has been jailed for seven years for running a Ponzi scheme which cost his victims millions. He convinced family business associates and long-standing friends...

Oct 30, 2020 · Breifne O’Brien, 59, whose address was given as 12 Poplar Grove, Corban’s Lane, Naas, allegedly drove without reasonable consideration and failed to comply with a garda direction on November 23 last.

Oct 8, 2014 · Fraudster businessman Breifne O’Brien has been jailed for seven years for running a Ponzi scheme which costs his victims millions. O’Brien used the stolen cash to pay for an extension to his...

Oct 8, 2014 · BREIFNE O’BRIEN HAS been jailed for seven years today for duping his friends and associates out of millions of euro during the boom. So how did the Corkman become known as the “Ireland’s...

May 13, 2018 · FRAUDSTER businessma­n Breifne O’Brien has been released from prison, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal. The former businessma­n was jailed for seven years in 2014 after he pleaded guilty to running a Ponzi scheme which cost his victims millions. He appealed the severity of the sentence in 2015 and lost.

Oct 8, 2014 · Sentenced today to seven years in jail, O’Brien (53), of Kilmore, Monkstown Grove, Co Dublin, had pleaded guilty in June to 14 sample counts out of a total of 45 charges involving sums of more...

Oct 9, 2014 · A school friend of Breifne O’Brien who lost €3.6m to the socialite’s massive fraud said he was glad the “crook” was finally behind bars.