Brian Dempsey (businessman)

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Brian Dempsey (born 1947) [1] is a Scottish businessman.

He was a major funder of the Scottish Labour Party [2] and a briefly director of Celtic FC in 1990. [3] He supported Fergus McCann's efforts to take over Celtic in the 1990s. [3] He was declared bankrupt in June 2011, with debts in excess of £10 million. [1]

Dempsey currently lives in Scotland after brief spells in Miami and the Caribbean. [4] [3] His father was James Dempsey, a Labour MP in Scotland.

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