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Ben Dunne was born as Bernard Dunn in the village of Rostrevor in County Down, Ireland, in 1908. He a was the eldest son of Margaret (née Byrne) and Barney Dunn, a businessman. Dunne's father inherited the Woodside Restaurant Temperance Refreshment Rooms and an auctioneering firm, and his mother ran a drapery business and later a shipping agency.
Dublin 2, also rendered as D2 [1] [2] and D02, is a historic postal district on the southside of Dublin, Ireland. In the 1960s, this central district became a focus for office development. [ 3 ] More recently, it became a focus for urban residential development. [ 4 ]
In 2005, the Berkeley Court was sold to developer Seán Dunne for €100 million who also purchased the adjacent Jurys Ballsbridge Hotel and the Towers for €260 million. [4] [5] Dunne had originally envisioned a €1.5 billion development on the site which included a 37-storey skyscraper but this was blocked by planning authorities in 2007. [6]
Dunne was working on a new health club, to open in Dún Laoghaire in Dublin, but abandoned the project due to complaints from local residents. [19] In April 2005, Dunne paid £3,000,000 for a 21-acre (85,000 m 2) site in Motspur Park, New Malden (South London), former home of BBC Football Club and other BBC sports facilities. His intent was to ...
Dunne is sometimes referred to as "Lord Ballsbridge" or "Baron of Ballsbridge" [16] because of his ambitious development project in Ballsbridge, Dublin. [17] [18] Dunne was accused of recklessness for spending €379m [19] on a property deal in the prosperous Dublin 4 section of Dublin in 2005, an amount unprecedented by historical Irish standards at the time of the deal.
Margaret Heffernan (née Dunne; born 1942) is an Irish businesswoman. [1] Having left school at 14 to join what became one of Ireland's largest retailers, Dunnes Stores, she became one of its two main shareholders in the early 1990s, and later its CEO. [2]
Every helpful hint and clue for Wednesday's Strands game from the New York Times.
Marion McCarthy scored a goal direct from a puckout in the semi-final against Dublin. A fabulous goal by Jo Dunne and the fact that Geraldine Wynne’s lastminute close-in free sailed inches over the bar enabled Kilkenny to beat Wexford by 2–6 to 2–5.