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Edward Enda Haughey, [1] Baron Ballyedmond, OBE, FRCVS, [2] (5 January 1944 – 13 March 2014) was an Irish-British entrepreneur and politician. With an estimated personal wealth of €780 million (£650 million/USD$1,078 million), [3] he was the second-richest person in Northern Ireland, [4] ninth-richest in Ireland and was joint 132nd-richest person in the United Kingdom.
Ranking in Ireland Name Citizenship Net worth (USD) Sources of wealth 1: Shapoor Mistry Ireland 9.9 billion: Diversified: 2: John Collison Ireland 7.2 billion: Technology
The company quickly purchased an e-commerce license from the EU and it experienced rapid growth over the following years. It was briefly a member of the FTSE 100 and had a market capitalization of £4.5 billion. The company though fell victim to the dotcom bust and all but collapsed. [citation needed]
Smurfit was born in St Helens, England, and educated at Clongowes Wood College, County Kildare, Ireland. [3] He left school while a teenager and joined his father's company, Jefferson Smurfit & Sons Ltd, in 1955. [3] [4] In 1967, he was appointed joint managing director and was made deputy chairman in 1969. He was appointed chairman and chief ...
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of clans, peers and landed gentry families in Ireland. Most of the houses belonged to the Old English and Anglo-Irish aristocracy, and many of those located in the present Republic of Ireland were abandoned, sold or destroyed following the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War of the early 1920s.
O'Rourke "started as a 'pony boy' carrying muck out from under London as the Victoria Line was being constructed." His estimated net worth was €800 million as of 2015. [2] O'Rourke purchased the construction company Swift Structures, owned by his brothers-in-law, Jim and Matt Halligan from County Mayo. He then called in the receivers. [6] [4]
Charles James Haughey (/ ˈ h ɔː h i /; HAW-hee [1] 16 September 1925 – 13 June 2006) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who led four governments as Taoiseach: December 1979 to June 1981, March to December 1982, March 1987 to June 1989, and June 1989 to February 1992.
One of her ex-husbands was from Ireland, with whom she visited Ashford Castle once. [10] Shay had an estimated net worth of $600 million at the time of her death. [34] A personal assistant had once stolen $3.4 million worth of jewelry, furs, and designer handbags from her home. Her jewelry collection was worth $13.4 million.