Bernard Flynn jailed for €25,000 social welfare fraud

This report is a localnews.ie summary based on public court reporting and records; sources are listed below.

Bernard Flynn was jailed for 18 months for social welfare fraud at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 8 July 2015. The case involved €25,000 claimed through repeated jobseeker’s and rent allowance applications using another identity at River Valley Post Office in Swords.

Flynn pleaded guilty to 11 sample charges representing 123 jobseeker’s allowance claims and 13 further claims for jobseeker’s and rent allowance. The court heard that facial recognition software helped detect the fraud, and Judge Martin Nolan said prison was required because of its persistence.