O’Flynn for sentencing after guilty plea on six fraud charges

Former solicitor, financial advisor, and Fianna Fáil councillor Gary O’Flynn pleaded guilty yesterday at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to six fraud charges.

He will be sentenced on April 22 when also faces sentencing in the more serious case of soliciting someone to murder three people — a member of the garda fraud squad, a revenue commissioner, and an accountant.

O’Flynn, of Hayfield Drive, Whitechurch, Co Cork, was arraigned on six fraud charges related in part to fraudulently claiming commissions for mortgages and using false accounts.