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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
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.
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 ...
Seán Haughey (born 8 November 1961) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Bay North constituency from 2016 to 2024, and previously from 1992 to 2011 for the Dublin North-Central constituency.
Former Taoisigh John A. Costello [19] and Liam Cosgrave did not receive state funerals, at the request of their respective families. [52] Similarly, a 1948 press release at the repatriation by LÉ Macha of the remains of W. B. Yeats, who had died in France in 1939, stated "The Government was, of course, desirous to accord full State honours in connection with the funeral, but considered it ...
Each state-sponsored body has a sponsor Minister who acts as shareholder, either independently, or in conjunction with the Minister for Finance, who may also be a shareholder. State-sponsored bodies are often popularly called semi-state companies , a misnomer, since they are all (mostly) fully owned by the state, in addition not all of them are ...
The Interregnum began with England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales ruled by the Council of State, then the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell (1649–1658) and his son Richard Cromwell (1658–1659). The Restoration in Ireland was effected in 1660 without major opposition, Charles II being declared king on 14 May 1660 by the Irish Convention.