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Brody Sweeney is an Irish businessman, known for founding O'Briens Irish Sandwich Bars which went into liquidation in October 2009. The Irish business was subsequently bought from the liquidator by Abrakebabra Investments Ltd. Prior to that he was involved with the franchise Prontoprint before selling the business back to the U.K. parent in 1988. He has written two business guides, Making Bread and "Small to Tall" - How to grow your business from its entrepreneurial roots".
He founded a Thai takeaway business, Camile Thai Kitchen, in 2010 with 28 branches now franchised or operating across Ireland and 7 in the Greater London area as of February 2020.
Sweeneyunsuccessfully ran as a Fine Gael candidate for Dublin North-East in the 2007 general election. He came 6th of 8 candidates with 10.1% of first preference votes, and was beaten by Terence Flanagan for the Fine Gael seat.