Shane O’Brien gets suspended sentence for IBRC theft

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Shane O’Brien received a one-year suspended sentence for theft from IBRC at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 24 June 2015. He took cash payments from four mortgage-arrears clients between November 2011 and July 2013, keeping €2,886 instead of offsetting it against their mortgages.

O’Brien pleaded guilty and alerted his superiors to the thefts. Judge Martin Nolan ordered him to repay IBRC within one month; the sentence was suspended, and the report said he had no previous convictions.