{"id":155729,"date":"2025-11-23T17:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155729\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T17:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T17:30:19","slug":"ponzi-fraudster-breifne-obrien-reinvents-himself-as-golf-tour-specialist-and-joins-tourism-ireland-at-major-overseas-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155729\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponzi fraudster Breifne O\u2019Brien reinvents himself as golf tour specialist and joins Tourism Ireland at major overseas events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Breifne O\u2019Brien, who was jailed for seven years in 2014 for the theft of over \u20ac10m, pictured leaving Dublin Circuit Criminal Court at the time. Photo: Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/abe99931-81af-49fa-aa64-5b751ce7942e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Breifne O\u2019Brien, who was jailed for seven years in 2014 for the theft of over \u20ac10m, pictured leaving Dublin Circuit Criminal Court at the time. Photo: Collins<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Convicted fraudster Breifne O\u2019Brien joined Tourism Ireland at several overseas events promoting Ireland as a world-class golf destination in his new career as a golf travel adviser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">O\u2019Brien, now 63, was jailed for seven years in 2014 for duping long-standing friends and business associates out of millions in a Ponzi scheme. When he was declared bankrupt while still in prison, he had debts of more than \u20ac40m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breifne O\u2019Brien, who was jailed for seven years in 2014 for the theft of over \u20ac10m, pictured leaving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-155729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}