The road finally ran out for Philip Marley this week. The North Dublin businessman, who during the Celtic Tiger era became a multi-millionaire after listing his property company Ely on the London Stock Exchange, is on his way to prison in two weeks after pleading guilty to fraud. Marley goes to jail as the “author” of a “planned and premeditated” property fraud in which more than €250,000 was misappropriated. The scheme involved false deeds being used to change the registered ownership of two properties, with one located on Phibsborough Road, Dublin and the other on St Mary’s Road, Dublin 4, without…

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