{"id":370994,"date":"2026-03-29T07:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/370994\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T07:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:07:09","slug":"former-rugby-star-brendan-mullin-freed-after-serving-just-13-months-of-36-month-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/370994\/","title":{"rendered":"Former rugby star Brendan Mullin freed after serving just 13 months of 36-month sentence"},"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\">Ex-Ireland international was found guilty of stealing more than \u20ac567,000 from bank\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former rugby international Brendan Mullin. Photo: Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SN Mullin.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)\">Former rugby international Brendan Mullin. 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)\">Former rugby international Brendan Mullin was released from prison three months ago, having served just 13 months of his three-year jail sentence.<\/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)\">Mullin (62) stole hundreds of thousands of euro from Bank of Ireland Private Bank when he was its managing director between 2011 and 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ex-Ireland international was found guilty of stealing more than \u20ac567,000 from bank Former rugby international Brendan Mullin. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18373,45,7863,9924,61,19086,60,112],"class_list":["post-370994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ali-bracken","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-bank-of-ireland","tag-dublin-courts","tag-ie","tag-international-rugby","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370994","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=370994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}