| Name: | Denis O’Brien |
| Net Worth: | $4 billion |
| Source of Wealth: | Digicell |
| Born: | April 19, 1958 |
| Age: | |
| Country: | Ireland |
| Wife: | Catherine Walsh |
| Children: | Joanne, Abigail, Denis and Kerry |
| Residence: | Dublin, Ireland |
| Private Jet: | Gulfstream G650 (M-YGIG) |
| Yacht: | Nero |
Denis O’Brien is an Irish billionaire. He is the owner of Digicell and Communicorp. He sold his ESAT Telecom for US$ 2.8 billion. He was born in April 1958. He is married to Catherina and has 4 children.
He is the owner and chairman of Digicell. Digicell is is a mobile phone operator. Active in the Caribbean and Central America.
Digicel started in Jamaica in 2001. Later Digicell started in Haiti, El Salvador, and Honduras. The mobile phone company now has 14 million subscribers and is active in 32 countries.
O’Brien also founded the Esat Telecom Group plc. And built it throughout the 1990s. He received help from Michael Lowry to acquire a mobile phone license. He was Ireland’s energy and communications minister. He sold the company to British Telecom plc for US$ 2.8 billion.
Communicorp is a media company based in Ireland. O’Brien founded Communicorp in 1989. He started radio channels in Ireland.
The company is now one of the largest independent radio networks in Ireland and the UK. The company reached 4 billion listeners in the UK per week. With radio stations as Smooth Radio and Heart Radio. In Ireland, Communicorp owns Today FM, Newstalk, and many other channels.
He controls Independent News & Media plc. INM is a media organization based in Dublin, Ireland. The company owns both national and regional newspapers. The two main titles are the Irish Independent and the Sunday Independent.
O’Brien is an active philanthropist through his Iris O’Brien Foundation. Which he named after his mother Iris. The foundation supports disadvantaged communities in Ireland and the UK. He had donated tens of millions through his foundation.
He is also co-
Following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the Digicel Foundation built 150 schools.
His net worth is $4 billion.
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Denis lives with his wife Catherine Walsh in a large house in Dublin, Ireland. The house was partially rebuilt in 2015. When an indoor pool was removed. It was replaced with a large living room. And an underground playroom.
The photos here under show the old situation. But O’Brien also has residences in Portugal. Where he owns the Quinta do Lago golf complex. And he owns a house in Malta.
He is the owner of the yacht Nero. The yacht was damaged in a dry dock accident in 2019.
Denis O’Brien owns and has owned several Gulfstream private jets. His most recent is a 2018 Gulfstream G650 with registration M-
He owned two other G650’s. The M-
He owns the aircraft leasing company Aergo Capital.
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SuperYacht Owners Database 3-2023
