Denis O’Brien founded Communicorp in 1989 and serves on the company’s Board of Directors. Telecoms - €3.8bn down €900m. Denis was born in 1938 in Granville, New York. Denis J. O'Brien, Sr., 71 passed away peacefully on September 30, 2020 at Middlesex Hospital with his wife of 42 years, Virginia by his side. Businessman Denis O’Brien (61) first made his fortune in 2000 when he sold his Esat Telecom business to British Telecom Group for €2.4bn. In 2014 Nero was purchased by Denis ‘O Brien. Whatever the era, and rightly or wrongly, it is a received wisdom in politics that those who seek to accumulate media ownership do it, at least in part, to bolster their power. Denis O'Brien, Sr. passed away on September 30, 2020 at the age of 71 in Middletown, Connecticut. He sent her to MB92 in Barcelona for an intensive refit. Funeral Home Services for Denis are being provided by Biega's Funeral Home - Middletown. Find Denis O'brien's memorial at Legacy.com. Denis O'Brien is an Irish billionaire businessman, and the founder and owner of Digicel and Communicorp. The yacht’s owner is Denis O’Brien. “Denis was one of the architects of the UN Broadband Commission more than ten years ago with the goal of bringing broadband to the 3.5 billion people who do not have any access to the internet,” he said. âOnce it had anything to do with Denis OâBrien it was an absolute lightning rod,â recalls a senior source. Full coverage here, Inside Politics - Empire, imperialism and Ireland - with prof Jane Ohlmeyer. — Michael O'Regan (@Michael_O_Regan) February 25, 2021 No doubt the sale of Denis … The sale of Communicorp for more than â¬100 million marks the exit of telecoms tycoon Denis OâBrien from the Irish media market after a decades-long presence that, at its peak, saw him exercise significant control over large swathes of print and broadcast media. Owner. 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The father of three will be buried this Friday. The economist his starsign is Aries and he is now 62 years of age. Denis O'Brien The Irish Times reported that the Digicel owner sold Communicorp to Bauer Media Audio representing Denis O'Brien's exit from Irish media after 30 years. Inside Politics - Poll: what is the public's attitude to lifting restrictions? As Denis O’Brien exits the Irish media market, he must wonder whether it was worth it, on any level. Denis OâBrien, third from left, with former taoiseach Enda Kenny at the ringing of the bell at the NYSE on March 19th, 2012. Denis is the founder of Digicel, a company well-known across the globe. Inevitably, he loomed large in this period, including for politicians who encountered him as an investor, an owner of regulated entities and someone whose media interests were a powerful force in shaping political narratives. Ireland’s largest newspaper group has agreed to a takeover offer from the Belgian media group Mediahuis in a deal in which its largest shareholder, billionaire Denis O’Brien, … As a serial entrepreneur and businessman, Denis has helped Communicorp expand from its humble beginnings in Ireland to encompass dozens of media and broadcasting outlets across Europe. âI can tell you this much: thereâs nobody in Leinster House to shed any tears to see him leaving the media scene in Ireland. Billionaire mobile phone entrepreneur Denis O'Brien is a bit like Ted, See full article at The Guardian - TV News » Permalink; Report this; IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. First elected in 1976, he represented the 169th Legislative District in the state House for the most part of four decades. Affordable housing: Can Land Development Agency succeed where others have failed? This content … Mr … The sale of Communicorp ends O'Brien's involvement in Irish … image caption Denis O'Brien was suing the Sunday Business Post over articles published in 2015 One of Ireland's wealthiest people has lost a defamation action against a Sunday newspaper. He made his 6800 million dollar fortune with Chairman of DOB Group and DOB Investments. Many point to the infamous âPayback Timeâ editorial that ran on the front page of the Irish Independent on the eve of the general election that swept Bertie Ahern to power. The face-off between OâReilly and OâBrien over (a contest described by an ex-senior politician as âthe two bulls in the field and who is the biggerâ) led to his peak years of influence in Irish media. Catherine Murphy, joint leader of the Social Democrats, who was at the centre of the case against the Oireachtas, says she welcomes his departure from media ownership in Ireland. Several political sources who spoke privately also registered the view that OâBrienâs involvement in an issue increased the chances of it garnering negative attention in the media â from water charges to the National Broadband Plan (where Actavo, an engineering company he controls, won contracts) to moves to buy up the Celtic Media group of newspapers. Denis O'Brien passed away peacefully on Tuesday, February 16, 2021. Photograph: Ben Hider/NYSE Euronext/PA Wire For the first time in 32 years, Denis O’Brien is no longer an Irish media mogul. Around this time, OâBrien was building out his media portfolio, buying up shares in Independent News & Media (INM), previously controlled by Tony OâReilly. Denis O'Brien signing a national licence agreement with the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland to make Newstalk Ireland's first national commercial talk-radio station. His business interests have also extended to aircraft leasing, utilities support, petroleum, and football, being a minority shareholder of Celtic F.C. Denis O'Brien named as honorary life president of the Football Association of Ireland. One source who has worked in both worlds remarks: âPoliticians think: Why else would someone own media, except for f***ing power?â. Inside Politics - "The EU needs to look at its own problems" - Clare Daly on civil rights, Russia & life as an MEP. In 2019, O'Brien sold his 29% stake in INM and the company was sold to Belgium media company Mediahuis. Denis O'Brien is the largest shareholder in the country's biggest newspaper publisher Independent News & Media. DENIS O’BRIEN Owner & Board Member . Since then Nero is out of service. You can leave condolences in the Guest Book, buy sympathy flowers, and pay your respects. For a price of US$ 70 million. He is a producer, known for Time Bandits (1981), Withnail & I (1987) and Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979). T he Nero was undergoing maintenance work in … He was listed among the World's Top 200 Billionaires in 2015 and is also Ireland's richest native-born citizen. The Secret Teacher: This year’s Leaving Certs are the hardest workers we’ve ever known, Frequently asked questions about your digital subscription, Specially selected and available only to our subscribers, Exclusive offers, discounts and invitations, Explore the features of your subscription, Carefully curated selections of Irish Times writing, Sign up to get the stories you want delivered to your inbox, An exact digital replica of the printed paper, Farmer wins orders overturning consent for grid connection from wind farm, Coronavirus: Pupils return to primary schools in Northern Ireland, Met Éireann issues alert ahead of heavy rain and strong winds, Eeva Leinonen unveiled as next Maynooth University president. The move follows Mr O’Brien’s sale of his 29 per cent shareholding in Independent News & Media (INM) in 2019 and marks his exit from the Irish … Denis O'Brien. Denis O'Brien, Producer: Time Bandits. This country’s weak regulations on media monopolies were exposed when Denis O’Brien added control of Ireland’s biggest newspaper company to … â. Analysts say Mr. O'Brien may feel the time is right to exit the business and focus on his other interests, notably his Digicel mobile empire in the Caribbean and the Pacific Islands. Photograph: Ben Hider/NYSE Euronext/PA Wire. He served as a member of the Philadelphia City Council for one term, from 2012-16. Denis O'Brien's Communicorp – the radio company including Newstalk, Off The Ball and Today FM – has agreed a sale to an international media group for … This also saw a barrage of legal letters sent to media organisations for reporting the proceedings of Dáil Ãireann, usually something that can be done with impunity. âI donât think he was a positive force in media,â she says. The popular political belief, accurate or otherwise, was that this editorial reflected the views of then-owner Tony OâReilly. However, sometimes things happen, good or bad. Like it has turned out … As former chairman of the Esat … 13 talking about this. OâBrien, political sources point out, was not the first figure whose concentration of media assets also concentrated political minds. Inside Politics - Is affordable housing achievable? Denis O’Brien, Chairman Digicel, Member of the UN Broadband Commission, paid tribute to Denis’ talents and passion. Denis O'Brien is a successful Irish businessman and philanthropist who has invested heavily in the Irish media - more than €500m reportedly. Over the years, politicians who dealt with him, or his media interests, have a range of verdicts â from his being âperfectly pleasant and helpfulâ, to those working for him engaging in lobbying that left one senior politician feeling that âthere was a gun being put to my headâ on some issues. He attended Castleton State College … Denis O'Brien was born in 1941 as Denis James O'Brien. Denis O'Brien is a serial entrepreneur and the founder and owner of Digicel and Communicorp. Dry-Dock Accident. In September 2019 Nero was damaged in a docking incident in Italy. Denis O'Brien – The Story So Far follows RTÉ's documentaries on leading entrepreneurs, the late Tony Ryan, who founded Ryanair, and Tony O'Reilly who led Independent News & Media. In 2011 the Moriarty tribunal found that former minister for communications Michael Lowry âsecured the winningâ of the 1995 mobile phone licence competition for Denis OâBrienâs Esat Digifone â which is rejected by both OâBrien and Lowry. Dennis Michael O'Brien (born 1952) is an American Republican Party politician who served as the 137th Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 2007-08. Two years after selling out of newspaper publisher Independent News & … She fell to her side in a dry dock. Denis O’Brien, third from left, with former taoiseach Enda Kenny at the ringing of the bell at the NYSE on March 19th, 2012. Despite his commercial interest in the press, he never shied away from using the courts against the media when he felt wronged, or indeed against the Oireachtas in a 2017 case relating to statements made on his banking affairs. Five people were hospitalised following an incident involving the superyacht owned by Irish businessman Denis O'Brien in Italy. But … Former political staffers recall, and not fondly, the controversy around his presence on the stage with Enda Kenny at a New York Stock Exchange function, where he also crossed paths with Labour minister Joan Burton, prompting backlash for both due to recent findings about him in the report of the Moriarty tribunal. On 19-4-1958 Denis O’Brien (nickname: Denis ) was born in County Cork, Ireland. In recent years, stories intertwining OâBrien, his media interests and the worlds of journalism and politics have multiplied: his legal case against the Oireachtas, the black-listing from his radio stations of journalists from this newspaper and online publisher the Currency; the loss of a high-profile libel case against the Sunday Business Post; and the ODCE investigation into INM. Denis O'Brien's Communicorp - which operates Today FM and Newstalk - to be sold to Bauer Media Group Sean Murray. 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