{"id":325191,"date":"2026-03-02T16:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/325191\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:15:09","slug":"the-custom-house-capital-scandal-he-said-there-is-absolutely-no-chance-you-are-getting-any-of-that-money-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/325191\/","title":{"rendered":"The Custom House Capital scandal: \u2018He said there is absolutely no chance you are getting any of that money back\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Jimmy O\u2019Neill invested a pension pot of almost \u20ac50,000 in the firm. He only discovered there was any issue with his money when the story was covered on Liveline\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jimmy O'Neill was a victim of the Custom House Capital scandal. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/60796c7e-6b18-4e75-9cec-98970325967d.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)\">Jimmy O&#8217;Neill was a victim of the Custom House Capital scandal. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/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)\">It would be fair to say that 66-year-old Dubliner Jimmy O\u2019Neill, a typesetter by trade, has been a man of caution all his life.<\/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)\">Born and bred in the Liberties, O\u2019Neill raised his own brood there after marrying his wife Maggie and welcoming three children \u2013 now 40, 35 and 30. He got a mortgage and a home for the young family, renovating it to four bedrooms over the years rather than selling up, even as the Celtic Tiger property market roared around them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy O\u2019Neill invested a pension pot of almost \u20ac50,000 in the firm. He only discovered there was any&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,6992,6085],"class_list":["post-325191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-people-culture-magazine","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325191","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=325191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}